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Beyond Blue

“So let me get this straight,” a friend of a friend said to me last night. “You drove eight hours up to Boston to stay with a woman you met on an Amtrak train two years ago, and with whom you’ve kept in touch all that time? But you have never seen her except for…

At time throughout my life, I have relied on my spiritual friends–Mike (my writing mentor), Ann (my guardian angel) and others–to show me who I can be if I only dust off the dirt on my the mirror. When I plummeted to the depth of my depression–and could not find even one asset to my…

My blogging buddy, Katherine Stone, who produces the most popular blog on postpartum depression, called “Postpartum Progress,” featured my story today. If you want some background information on how I became a platinum-level member of Club Depression, visit her site by clicking here.

I was sorry to see Beliefnet’s other woman blog, “Chattering Mind,” come to an end because 1) I learned much of my blogging techniques and tricks from Amy Cunningham (when Beliefnet launched Beyond Blue, my very smart editor told me to study “Chattering Mind” as my model), and 2) “Chattering Mind” provided the peaceful take…

In the spirit of Amy’s blog, “Chattering Mind,” I found this helpful article at dailyom.com on quieting the monkey mind. It’s been called the monkey mind – the endless chattering in your head as you jump in your mind from thought to thought while you daydream, analyze your relationships, or worry over the future. Eventually,…

There’s an interesting discussion on the message boards of my “Relapse: The Waiting Place” post and “What Makes People Relapse?” post about whether or not a person can fully recover from depression. Is depression like cancer … in that we hope for remission, not a cure? Reader Eddygh writes this: As someone who suffers from…

Just yesterday I was talking to my fellow Beliefnet blogger David Kuo about the similarities between brain tumors and depression. I don’t have to worry about my growth turning malignant as much as he does, but we both agreed that having a lump in your head forces you to live in the moment, and appreciate…

Reader Larry Parker is always posting interesting comments. I was intrigued by the distinction he makes (with Patton Dodd) between optimism and hope, and the comparison he makes between depression and cancer. He shares on the message board of “Relapse: The Waiting Place” a letter he composed to my blogger buddy, James Bishop of “Finding…

In his comment, Larry highlighted some points made by Patton Dodd, who wrote Beliefnet’s “Optimism Is Depression,” (click here) about the distinction between optimism and hope. The article begins . . . Long before “The Secret” had readers talking about how we attract good or bad things to ourselves according to how we think, I…

Even as I’m not very good at it, I know that gratitude is important and can help a person beat depression. Based on her research findings, University of California psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky believes that keeping a gratitude journal–taking the time to consciously count your blessings–is one of the most effective happiness boosters. According to psychologist…
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