Tiffanie Verbeke writes: “Did you know that coping with depression improves with practice? I wish that depression checked prerequisites before working itself into someone’s brain. I want to know that I’ve met a checklist of skills that guarantees that I’m fully capable of coping with depression. Fortunately, coping skills can improve with practice, in which case I think that depression could almost be viewed as a sport. Athletes have basic skills that help them succeed, but they must practice smaller, more specific skills in order to improve their overall success at the sport.” The same goes for coping with depression. Read the rest of her blog.
Coping with Depression Improves with Practice
Settling Into Retirement: Six Years and Counting
Dr. Kathy McCoy writes, “Once the excitement of transitioning from the working world to retirement has become an altered version of real life — complete with dental appointments, tire rotations, bad habits and challenging friendships — there are some settling in realizations. It has been six years since Bob and I left our jobs in Los Angeles and headed for a new home in rural Arizona. Thinking back from the early days of our transition to the present, these are the realizations that have dawned as we’ve settled in”. Read her Blog
12 Office Depression Busters: Tips for Work Depression
How do we get through our work days when depressed? Blogger Therese Borchard offers these 12 great tips. Read the Blog
5 Ways to Feel Better During Depression
Here’s a short and simple list of things you can do to feel better. Read the Blog
How to Handle a Depression Relapse
Depression blogger Therese Borchard writes, “For anyone who has ever been debilitated by severe depression, there is nothing more frightening than the feeling that you’re relapsing into another episode. We chalk up the first few days of angst to a bad stretch and hope it gets better from there. But by the time we’ve hit six weeks of crying spells and the kind of anxiety that steals our appetite, there’s usually some panic that we are headed into the Black Hole of Depression yet again.” Read the Blog
13 Tips for Dealing with a Really Lousy Day
From Grethchen Rubin at The Happiness Project website, stuff you can do to turn around a crummy day. Read the Blog
Practical Tips to Beating Back the Depression Demon
From law firm consultant Rhonda Muir, great tips about how to contain and heal from depression while working in the legal profession. Read the Blog
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