Posts Tagged depression


Depression And The Five Stages Of Grief

Normally when someone is referring to the five stages of grief they are talking about physical death where the person has just received notice that they have not much longer to live. Today I was going through the five stages of grief and how they apply to mental illness most notably depression so that is [...]

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An Interesting Week

I realized about a week and a half ago that my supply of Pristiq was quickly diminishing and after failing to get hold of my doctor due to a new answering service that does not work whatsoever. Anyway on Monday I cut my normal dose in half so I was taking fifty mg of Pristiq [...]

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Sleep The Great Escape

When you are dealing with depression sleep becomes the great escape for once your eyes shut all of the problems, over thinking, negative thoughts and the rest of the garbage disappears at least for a little while. The problem with sleep is that all you want to do so you spend hours in bed and [...]

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Fair Weather Friends

I received a message on Facebook the other day from a friend I have not heard from in a very long time. This person knew that in the last six years I had separated from my wife, ended up living alone and of course was diagnosed with all sorts of wonderful things. This person came [...]

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It Is Always A Choice

I was talking with a family member whose son suffers from mental illness and she was saying that she and her husband were amazed that I have gone through what I have gone through over the last six years basically alone. I replied it is a choice. Now some people who have never suffered from [...]

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Back To The Beginning

I remember when I first started Untreatable Online back in 2008. I was coming off a two month stay on a psych ward and left against doctors advice which pissed off my ex wife who would leave shortly after and felt myself basically alone. I would spend hours searching through a ton of medical information [...]

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From The Beginning

Eight years ago I was in my final semester of Social Work and ready to take on the world by fixing all that was wrong and giving the hopeless hope. The decade before was spent jumping from town to town, job to job and basically having nothing to show for it but with Social Work [...]

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Depression really does turn the world grey, study shows

Depression has long been associated with darkness and grey skies, but a new study suggests there might actually be a scientific basis for these cultural motifs. A new paper published in Biological Psychiatry this month suggests people who are clinically depressed have difficulty detecting the contrast between black and white, which means that while they’re [...]

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As his depression worsened, he realised he had to do something

Victor Marks was a teenager when he first felt that sinking feeling he’s since become so familiar with. “Most high school kids have some kind of problem; some learn how to move through it, but I just got deeper into it,” says Marks, 67. “I had tremendous doubts about myself. I quit school early. I [...]

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It Has Been A Long Time

I started Untreatable Online for a couple of reasons which are (1)I needed a place to write and letting the chaos of my mind transferred to paper that maybe it would bring some relief (2)I felt at the time that all of the mental health blogs around the web were composed by mental health professionals [...]

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