It occured to me yesterday while I was filling out a 200 question “personality profile” as part of my job search, that I’ll never be able to sit and take that sort of things without thinking about the hours and hours spent filling out similar profiles for depression screening, etc. back when I first started therapy, and when I was in the hospital during the psych consult. I’ve taken too many of those in my life….
Saw this interesting article called Are you Fighting Yourself? today via a link on Lifehacker. I found it interesting on two levels personally. One, when I was in the midst of depression, I saw this in myself all the time. I seemed to almost take pride in my misery, and not do anything to get out…
I finally found the time, and the correct bit of code “magic” to get the new Blogroll tool setup and running properly. Now I can get around to finally making updates to the lists!! I went through tonight and removed a number of blogs that had either gone away, or not been updated in quite…
I was reading this entry that Chris had written about guilt when the last sentence really struck me: “I guess I’ve carried that warped child’s perception of the world into adulthood. I am responsible for everyone, and yet I am unable to completely please anyone.” Now those of you who aren’t survivors of child abuse…
I was chatting with someone the other day about this issue. In came up in regards to someone they know is who dealing with an overwhelming change in their life. The constant worry and fear of what’s going to happen has overwhelmed them to the point where they don’t eat, sleep or do much of…
In the wake of recent events, there will be a lot of talk of the need to do something, to convince ourselves that we can somehow stop this, or something like it, from happening again. Naturally, we will hear lots and lots about the “causes” as if we can affix blame and that will help…
The first in a series, I think: Things I needed to learn before I could be “healthy”. My happiness is my responsibilty. If I’m not pursuing the things that make my life fulfilling, they aren’t going to happen. Allowing other people to make decisions for me was never going to bring me happiness. Remember, the…
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Oh those labels have a habit of bringing up all those memories. Well they do with me!
Do you declare that you suffer from depression or to being an inpatient during Psychiatric observation?
Regards
Dan
Hi..My name is amber, and i am a victim, but i have not been able to overcome my past. I am in a relationship with a guy that understands, but he is sick of dealing with my issues, and i don’t know how to make the issues stop. I feel like there is something wrong with me because i can’t get over this. Someone please email me at xkgftheonekx@msn.com i really need someone to talk to! thanks
Dan,
It’s been over 5 years since I was on antidepressants or in therapy on a regular basis, so I don’t really feel the need to acknowledge any “current” depression in those sort of things, but if it comes up in as a question in mypast work history, I talk about it.
How did you find the response when you do talk about it?
When i missed my final year exams through a breakdown, one of the first questions my personal tutor asked me was “Why didnt you put down depression on your application form?”
I think my reply was thus “You must be joking … … Would you have taken someone on that in the past few years has been diagnosed with clinical depression”? My tutors silence spoke volumes!
At the time we thought it was depressive episode but a future diagnoses was made of PTSD after I had disclosed about my past sexual abuse.
Ive got a new blog oing if interested as usual comments are encouraged. Let me know and I will send you the url (its on a different domain)
Dan