Category Archives: Coping Resources/Strategies

Stress Can Be Good For You: About Stress Generally.(Cont.d from last week).

Posted on October 27, 2014 by coalfacecaring

The great and persisting worry – indeed, as one patient described it to me, “This clinging and inescapable mire” – amounts to something like this: “I am caught in a trap, knowing as I do that I am (or my … Continue reading →

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Stress Can Be Good For You: about stress generally.

Posted on October 19, 2014 by coalfacecaring

Over the past several weeks now we have been focussing our interest quite specifically on snxiety and depression. I hope you might agree that recently posted blogs have provided a detailed and fairly comprehensive coverage of both subject matters. At … Continue reading →

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Depression: Final thoughts (Continued)

Posted on October 14, 2014 by coalfacecaring

Following on from last week’s blog, an important – indeed, key – point to make here concerns the difficulties (for fairly obvious reasons, e.g. practical, ethical, humane, logistical etc.) of researching “learned helplessness” in man. Let me explain what I … Continue reading →

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Depression: Some final thoughts.

Posted on October 2, 2014 by coalfacecaring

I have decided to write this postscript, because as is often the way with afterthoughts, they emerge from a ‘thicket’ of focus and concentration on a given topic (in this case, depression) and are often at least worthy of articulation … Continue reading →

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Depression. iv c: “All that glitters is not gold”.

Posted on September 26, 2014 by coalfacecaring

Although much that relates to “state of the art” thinking about and insight into human depression lies beyond the aims of these blogs, it is nevertheless important to recognize that its study and ensuing insight has come a long way … Continue reading →

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Depression. iv b: “All that glitters is not gold”.

Posted on September 13, 2014 by coalfacecaring

Antidepressant drugs, as we have already seen, are basically designed to target and to deal with biogenic or chemically-induced, depression. Notice that although Angela (see my most recent blog) felt low and “depressed”, as she described it, “most of the … Continue reading →

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Depression iv a: “when all that glitters is not gold”.

Posted on September 10, 2014 by coalfacecaring

In this blog, I want if I may, to draw together several important and related points, concerning the diagnosis and treatment of depression. In order to achieve this end, I shall again draw upon actual experience within the clinical scene, … Continue reading →

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Depression iiic: When all the joy goes out of living.

Posted on September 4, 2014 by coalfacecaring

Continuing on from last week, it is also important to remember that Geraldine was being treated with a combination of cytotoxic drugs, which have, in some cases, been reported to be associated with chemically-induced depression; although it should be stressed … Continue reading →

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Depression iiib; when all the joy goes out of living.

Posted on August 26, 2014 by coalfacecaring

Perhaps I might pause here from my account concerning Geraldine in my most recent blog; this in order to outline in greater detail a little more about chemically (or biogenically) induced depression. As it happens, we all – in the … Continue reading →

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Depression iii a: When all the joy goes out of living.