I’m making this chapter of my new book Choosing Happy available here, because if someone had told me about rumination, and how to overcome it several years ago, my life would have been a lot simpler! When I first found out I had depression I downloaded and read quite a few kindle books on other … Continue reading Rumination- The Negative Gremlin In Your Head
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Why RUOK? Day Doesn’t Work
Did you participate in RUOK? Day this year? Did you have someone in particular you wanted to check on? Someone who you’d been wondering if things weren’t peachy with for a while but you’d been too shy to inquire? I noticed a lot of action on social media. People posting a generalised shout out, or … Continue reading Why RUOK? Day Doesn’t Work
Give Depression the Bird
Let’s get one thing straight. Depression is real. It is not something to be trivialized, snapped out of, or sucked up. In fact, trying to do this often makes it worse. I know, because I’ve been there. I would have loved to have been able to give myself a shake and a rueful smile and … Continue reading Give Depression the Bird