Buzzfeed Video Teaches That Depression Isn’t Always Obvious
This is pretty powerful:
@Thriver mentioned this on Twitter today, and I thought I would pass it along. It’s the premeire issue of an e-zine called Light and Shadow. Light and Shadow is a quarterly e-zine which focuses on moving beyond psych labels, psych diagnosis and mental health stigma. There is a whole lot of stuff packed into the…
“”Almost all of the symptoms of depression on their own are experienced by everyone at one time or another,” explains Jennifer Payne, MD, director of the Women’s Mood Disorders Center at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. If you’ve been dealing with four or more of the following symptoms every day for two weeks, and they’ve…
Sara explains some of the reasons why it’s hard, including how much easier it is to internalize negative feedback than a compliment and the ways in which we deflect them, much as I tried to do. She also has a few thoughts on what we should take into consideration as we try to get better at accepting compliments.
My favorite thing to consider from her list – Do you compliment yourself? Why or why not?
This is specific to Calgary and to trying to get more resources available there, but it could be said about any place in the world: “Depression is common among those who die by their own hand, but other issues — like marital breakdown, a setback in finances, failing health, or a distinct lack of social…
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