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Winter Blues or SAD

  We’ve got to set the clocks back dictators tell us so; and suffer seasonal affective disorder through the months of snow. Steve Fowler   Many people find themselves less than happy and enthusiastic during the cold, dark winter months. For some, the inability to get involved with some of their favorite summer activities leaves them feeling [...]

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Expand by reaching out

    “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”  J.K. Rowling   This has been a tough and heart-wrenching weekend for a lot of people. Tragedy has a way of stepping into our lives when we least expect it. And we frequently need to lean on other people to help us [...]

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10 Steps to Managing Anxiety

  “Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. ” ~ Unknown   We have previously had a post about depression. There are many more people in our lives who suffer from depression than most of us realize or acknowlege. Many of us have either been there, are currently there or know someone [...]

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8 Things You Can Do for Your Depression

    Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open? Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence. Jalal ad-Din Rumi   This is hardly meant to be an exhaustive list, but a starting point for finding your way through, or helping someone else.   1. First, Ask for Help. -         [...]

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Where is God when We are Depressed? : The Bible and Depression

  The Bible does not try to hide the fact from us that actual depression exists. This is good news. As many of us have been lead to believe, we are not victims of some strange new malady. There are those who would blithely point to their favorite text and tell us that all we [...]

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Did Jesus Get Depressed? Do you?

    A clarion call went out last week, a friend of ours was in trouble. This reminded me of all the people I have lost in my real life, and those we have lost in our online universe to clinical depression. Realizing that there are so many more people suffering all around us every day, [...]

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