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Get It Done When You’re Depressed

Monday, September 13th, 2010 at 2:33 pm  
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Get It Done When You're Depressed
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Shake the blues away. Everyone knows that depression can lead to guilt, sadness, frustration, and in the case of 15-20% of people with depression, suicide. Get It Done When You’re Depressed by Julie Fast also acknowledges that people need depression self help to continue to function and get things done when suffering from depression. Because we live in a culture that rewards (and even worships) productivity, when a depressed person can’t meet the expectations of society, their family and work obligations, the depression becomes even worse and a vicious cycle begins. The goal of Getting Things Done When You’re Depressed[Read More]
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Mans Search for Meaning Viktor E. Frankl

Sunday, July 11th, 2010 at 12:59 am  
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Man's Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy
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Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl is among the most influential works of psychiatric literature since Freud. The book begins with a lengthy, austere, and deeply moving personal essay about Frankl’s imprisonment in Auschwitz and other concentration camps for five years, and his struggle during this time to find reasons to live. The second part of the book, called “Logotherapy in a Nutshell,” describes the psychotherapeutic method that Frankl pioneered as a result of his experiences in the concentration camps. Freud believed that sexual instincts and urges were the driving force of humanity’s life; Frankl, by contrast, believes[Read More]
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Healing After Loss

Sunday, June 27th, 2010 at 11:53 am  
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Healing After Loss (Daily Meditations)
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For those who have suffered the loss of a loved one, here are strength and thoughtful words to inspire and comfort.

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I Don’t Want to Talk About It: Male Depression

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010 at 1:10 am  
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I Don't Want to Talk About It
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A therapist himself, Terrence Real examines the dirty little secret of the American Male: chronic depression. As the author sees it, men who fall prey to depressive disorders are caught in a double bind. Since their feelings of helplessness are considered unmanly, they tend to hide them, which makes the descent into blackness even steeper. The solution? Real urges men (and women!) to cast aside their clichéd notions of gender and to accept that feelings are neither masculine nor feminine but essentially human.
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