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The One Cause of Depression and Anxiety We Hardly Ever Think About
Watch the YouTube version of this post: In case you didn't know, I've recently started posting video versions of my blog posts. Here's the one for this post: Please stay tuned for … [Read more...] about The One Cause of Depression and Anxiety We Hardly Ever Think About
Double Trouble: Why Depression and Anxiety Go Hand-in-Hand
This website is all about exploring the relationship between stress and two of the most common mental disorders in the world today: depression and anxiety.1 Clinical depression affects about 62 … [Read more...] about Double Trouble: Why Depression and Anxiety Go Hand-in-Hand
Ridiculous Optimism
“Light existed all along. Of course it did. Who says it didn't because I couldn't see it?” Gillian Marchenko 1 Let’s do a thought experiment. Imagine you are the photojournalist that … [Read more...] about Ridiculous Optimism
Five Ways to Find Meaning in Suffering (Part 2)
A Re-cap of Post-Traumatic Growth In last week’s post, we talked about Post-traumatic Growth (PTG), the mental and emotional growth that results from a survivor's struggle to cope with … [Read more...] about Five Ways to Find Meaning in Suffering (Part 2)
Five Ways to Find Meaning in Suffering (Part 1)
I just started reading the New York Times best-seller Resilience: Hard-won Wisdom for Living a Better Life by humanitarian (and former Navy SEAL) Eric Greitens. The book is a series of letters from … [Read more...] about Five Ways to Find Meaning in Suffering (Part 1)