My Hope for Peace From Depression This Holiday Season

Blogger Therese Borchard writes, “Perhaps people who live with chronic depression are similar to those who existed in Church’s era in that they need to hear that there is something more beyond their experience of pain. They need to know that peace — like Santa Clause — is real and is coming. In those moments of acute symptoms, when they feel trapped inside a small box — even if it’s wrapped with tinsel — unable to breathe, the here and now isn’t enough.” Read the Blog

Autumn Anxiety is Real, and Treatable

Depression blogger Therese Borchard writes, “It happens every year. As I watch the first golden leaves fall from the oak tree outside our house and listen to the sound of the cicadas ushering in autumn, my anxiety spikes. I used to think I was relapsing into depression, but having been through this year after year (and documenting it in my mood journal), I now know I’m just going through my annual bout of autumn anxiety: a nervous feeling in my gut that begins the last week of August and continues through the first weeks of September”. Read her Blog

 

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