Stephen Fry: Wordsmith, provocateur extraordinaire, stupendously intelligent, extraordinary wit, deliciously good author and person with bipolar. Stephen has cyclothymic disorder, a mild form of bipolar where a person has mood swings over a period of years that go from mild depression to euphoria and excitement. Fry affectiontally labelled his bipolar "bipolar lite". The … [Read more...]
How to Deal With Stress
This week's guest post comes from mental health worker Adewale Ademuyiwa, who runs a fantastic site called Stress Therapist . Adewale holds a BcSHons in Community Specialist Practice and a Post Graduate Certificate in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. How to deal with stress The usual advice often given for managing stress goes something like this: Learn to pay attention to … [Read more...]
How Winston Churchill Beat Depression
Winston Church and Abraham Lincoln are the two most significant political leaders to battle depression. Winston Churchill navigated his country though a radical period of change and was Prime Minister of England during World War II. Churchill had a very distant relationship with this father. Often people with depression don't have a close relationship with their father, … [Read more...]
How to Treat Depression: Lower over-Responsibility
What causes over-responsibility? Over-responsibility comes from the depressed mindset of not being good enough, and therefore becoming obsessed with not wanting to disappoint and burden other people. This produces a hyper vigilant state of alertness to ensure your work will not be criticised by others. Often the depressed person craves praise. Ultimately it is driven by an … [Read more...]
Overcoming Depression: Ten Common Mistakes
Overcoming depression is about learning from mistakes and work on not repeating them. Overcoming depression is a tandem procedure: learning what works, and unlearning and stopping what doesn't work. We need to outline these points because often people do not understand why recovery is punctuated with relapses and episodes. This article isn't meant to impose guilt or make … [Read more...]