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Category Archives: Depression
Will You Send Your Love?
If you pray, pray. If you send intentions, intend away. Energy? Warm thoughts? Anything positive, and if you feel so moved, please do. I had a different post in mind but it got derailed after reading an e-friend’s blog and … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Blogging, courage, Depression, Grief, Suicide
Tagged compassion, depression, empathy, friendship, love
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Thanksgiving, Holidays and Stuffing
Hi everyone, This gets to be a crazy busy time of the year here in the states due to the holidays which really get going prior to Thanksgiving. Why? Stuff. It’s a time of turkey and stuffing, stuffing ourselves and … Continue reading
Posted in Depression, Family
Tagged contentment, depresion, expectations, family, holidays, peace, priorities, stuff, Thanksgiving
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Texting Can Wait Documentary
It is rare I urge folks to do something, but this is one video everyone must see. AT & T produced a documentary on the devastating, and sometimes deadly, consequences of texting and driving. Texting can wait. This powerful, powerful … Continue reading
Posted in Decisions, Depression, Disability, Family, Grief, mTBI, TBI, Traumatic Brain Injury, Uncategorized
Tagged accidental death, auto accident, causing TBI, death, decisions, distractions, grief, life is sacred, mistakes, personal integrity, personal responsibility, regret, sorrow, TBI, texting while driving
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Rippling Effects of Suicide
[Written Saturday morning] Richard and I went to a garage sale at our neighbor’s house this morning; I was excited to get out of the house and go to a sale or two. To my surprise I found some really … Continue reading
Posted in Depression, Grief, mTBI, TBI
Tagged death, effects on community, mTBI, perspective, regret, silence, suffering, suicide, trauma, traumatic brain injury
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Why I Said No to Suicide [updated May 23, 2012]
(Written several weeks ago, I had hoped to post it sooner, but have been offline more often than online.) A previous post mentions a person threatening suicide on Facebook. There is probably nothing else on earth I take more seriously … Continue reading
Posted in courage, Depression, Healing, PTSD, TBI, Traumatic Brain Injury, Vulnerability, Wholeness
Tagged courage, depression, healing, help, hope, mTBI, pressing on, suicide, TBI
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Facebook, Betrayal, and a Web of Lies
While I have been dealing with my own and my Dad’s health issues, I’ve been offline quite a bit. One thing that had kept me engaged online was a young girl I met on Facebook in a support group. At … Continue reading
Posted in brain fatigue, Depression, encouragement
Tagged facebook, helping others, lies, manipulation, mTBI, reaching out, suicide, suicide prevention, TBI
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I realized I had left out some of the quotes that made an incredible difference in my perspective on depression in myself and helped develop greater compassion for others. Although all stories touched my heart, I found Andrew Solomon’s words … Continue reading
“Depression: Out of the Shadows” – Powerful PBS Documentary
[Although this was posted in my ‘Back to the Beginning’ posts, dated June 2010, I wanted to re-post it because I watched the video again online and there is so much great information, I HAVE to mention it again. I … Continue reading
Posted in Depression, Disability, Gratitude, mTBI, PTSD, TBI, Traumatic Brain Injury
Tagged acceptance, anxiety, bi-polar, Brain Injury, Clinical Psychologist, compassion, depression, diagnosis, healing, help, hope, it's all in your head, judgment, meds, peace, PTSD, pull yourself up by your bootstraps, restoration, suicide, support, talk therapy, TBI, the faces of depression, therapy, transformation, trauma, undertanding, validation
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The Fight of My Life 