I am always looking for new ways to illustrate the difference between clinical depression and plain old sadness. So picture a basketball floating in a swimming pool. This represents your brain when you feel good or you in a mood that is average for you. Now take the basketball and force it to the … [Read more...]
Self Help for Clinical Depression: What it Feels Like at Square One
Author's note: I wrote this article a few years ago. I am posting it again because I think that many approaches to self help for clinical depression trivialize the overwhelmingly dark nature of the beast of clinical depression... especially if it is of the more severe variety. If a person is … [Read more...]