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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Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Passing It On

I'm finished! I've completed the course for becoming a director in the Nedley Depression Recovery program. Now I am planning to hold the first sessions here in my community. It will probably be some time in September as I want to wait until people are past the rush of summer events. Also, I'd like it to precede the holiday season since that can be a difficult time for many people.

Anyway, hurray! I want to report that I am still recovered and thriving. Life is not perfect, but functioning with a healthy brain certainly helps in handling it. I will try to be faithful in reporting whatever happens from here, including the experiences involved in the programs that I'll be holding later. In the meantime, I hope you are gaining some help from reading this blog. If you haven't started at the beginning, you might want to do that.

Happy healing!
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