Welcome to Depression Recovery

Welcome to the Depression Recovery blog! If you suffer with depression or love someone who does, you have come to the right place for encouragement and practical help. I am not a health professional, but I know the darkness of major depression and the crippling effects of anxiety and OCD that often accompany it. Living with depression, I masked my way through daily life, waking each morning feeling as though someone had died and then realizing....it was me. Perhaps you agree that a fitting definition of major depression is death without the benefit of being unconscious. If that sounds a little dramatic, then that's good. If it sounds painfully accurate, then you've come to the right place, because I also know what recovery is! Take heart, friend. I invite you to read my blog from the beginning post and onward as I have logged my progress (and lack of it sometimes), and have not only spotted the light at the end of the tunnel, but have emerged into its presence!

I invite you to email me at simmonsmg@wildblue.net if you have questions or comments as you read.

Starting Your Journey

Begin your journey to depression recovery by starting from the first post. ~ To read it, click here.

You may also click here to read all the posts for 2009, then continue in reading the archives for 2010. Please remember to start with the last post and work your way backwards to the most current post. Thank you!


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Thursday, June 11, 2009

Smiling

Well, there is so much to report from my "lessons" in the depression recovery program with Dr. Nedley (via DVD). I don't seem to have time to blog about it as I'd like to, though. One thing I do want to write, however, is that I just noticed something today. I noticed that I'm smiling more. Not that I don't smile normally. It's just that I'm noticing that I'm smiling without really noticing. I was in Walmart and noticed people smiling at me and I realized I smiled first! This is a welcome trade for the many times I've caught a glance at myself in a store window or mirror and seeing a wrinkled forehead.

I've been using the special light for my wakeup times and I'm applying the other suggestions as well like nutrition, and the difficult assignment of not using negative speech for fourteen consecutive days! Needless to say, I've had to start that one over several times. I'm on day 2. Again! I do believe it's all coming together, though.

More later...
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