Archive for August, 2008

Alcohol - the enemy that claims it’s your friend.

I remember when I was suffering from depression people telling me I shouldn’t drink, that it was a depressant itself and would actually end up making me more depressed. Of course, I didn’t believe anyone and didn’t listen, because I didn’t WANT to.
I had convinced myself that I needed aclohol, that having a drink was […]

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More everyday help with depression…

Another feature of my depression, and many other people’s come to that, is “rumination focussed depression”. I didn’t really understand this until the psychiatrist I was seeing at the time explained that it meant going over the same negative thought patterns repeatedly without being able to get out of it or get any resolution. So […]

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