Remember, if you are in crisis, get help immediately. You may already know how to do that locally. If not, I have a link here to crisis lines worldwide. Also, if this is your first depression homework exercise that you are doing in this series, please read the brief introduction…
Today’s depression homework activity is about scheduling and routine. It is a way to find order in the chaos that often becomes our lives when we are depressed. For many people, having a schedule or routine might seem boring or dull. However, it doesn’t have to be. It can give shape…
Dedicate a private notebook/journal to your depression homework. This can be for your eyes only or it can be something you share with a counsellor or psychologist. Today’s activity is listing your passions. Passions are the things that ignite the flame within you. Make a list of all the things…
Depression homework is a series of tasks that you do on your own with the goal of recovering from depression. It is not like school homework in that there is no grading and no “right” or “wrong” answers. In fact the mere act of doing the depression homework is what…
Someone asked me how to overcome depression. This was my answer: There are many things you can do to start overcoming clinical depression, and which ones work best for you will depend on your personality: Make a list of all the things that have ever brought you joy. Do one…
If You Are Depressed: Get Your Thyroid Checked! If you are depressed, make sure you have gotten your thyroid checked. There is a strong link between the thyroid and depression: sometimes when people are hypothyroid, they become depressed. Hypothyroid just means your body is not producing enough of the thyroid hormones.…
There are a lot of books on hypnosis out there, but there is a wide variation in the quality of the information available in those books. Some provide the latest hypnotherapy techniques while others are simply a rehash of old and outdated information. This post will point you in the…
I recently had a question from a person who was having difficulty opening up to her counsellor. She could not even look her counselor in the eye and felt she was her counselor’s worst client. Opening up to a stranger can be strange I wonder how many people are in the…
I wanted to take some time to write about loss because it is pervasive in our lives and yet many people do not stop to acknowledge it or even think about it. Here, I am not just talking about the big, obvious losses like when a loved one passes away.…
So far, I have focused the articles in this blog on depression to the point that some might have assumed that this is (secretly?) a depression blog. I think depression is an important topic and I will likely continue to post articles that focus on depression since it is an…
