I really enjoyed Gretchen’s metaphor. Healing is oftentimes not a simple, clear path. Sometime, things get foggy. “Fog is the reminder to pay attention to the stretch of trail that you are on. To each footfall in front of you. What most people imagine about healing from trauma or from grieving is that you have…
This isn’t really surprising is it? An issue like depression zaps our ability to do much of anything, let alone eat healthy, exercise and take care of yourself. This is just another way it is a deadly serious disease. Australians with serious mental illness are living on average for 10-32 years less than the rest…
I find it to be pretty accurate as well. How about you? “”You don’t know why, but now everything you eat tastes like mashed potatoes and nothing you eat is satisfying,” it reads. “You keep eating because you must eat to live, but the effort that it takes to prepare food is taxing and there…
Great project put together to promote Men’s mental health. Read more about how it came about here. http://www.survivingmypast.net/not-weak-just-human/
If you’re in the UK, you might be interested in checking out some of the programing planned on television and radio dealing with mental health. And, for those of us not in the UK, if you want to come back and let us know how the shows are and what you learn, you can always…
This is an interesting way of looking at depression, and might also explain why people who have never had depression, and those who are currently suffering, have a hard time finding common ground. Often people who are depressed complain that other people don’t understand what they are going through. But this study suggests that the…
