Depression Articles
by Andrea Blundell Read advice that tells you that if you feel low, just ‘reach out’? But attempts you have made (if any) have gone poorly and left you feeling bad? Reaching out is a skill that not all of us learned as a child or were encouraged to do. On a good note, skills...
Spend hours thinking about situations in great detail? Or about a certain person or thing? Rumination is an unhelpful thinking pattern we can get stuck in. The meaning of rumination Rumination in a sentence, to go by the Cambridge English dictionary, is “the act of thinking carefully and for a long period about something”. But...
by Andrea Blundell Had grand plans for all you’d get done during lockdown? Only to find yourself underachieving and acting far from your typical self? Social isolation is at work on your mental health and the way your brain functions. Social isolation and your brain There actually isn’t a body of research on the sort...
At first the pandemic had you anxious. But now you have the ‘blahs’. What can you do if lockdown life means every day starts with, “I am bored”? What is boredom? The way one person feels when saying “I’m bored” might be entirely different from what another person feels when they say the same thing....
by Andrea Blundell Is someone you love responding to the global pandemic in ways you don’t understand, or are even upsetting for you? Or are you yourself reacting in ways others around you are annoyed by? It’s time for us all to recognise and have patience with the fact that prior mental health issues make...
by Andrea Blundell Tend to feel overwhelmed easily by life? Like things are just beyond you? ‘Learned helplessness’ is a behavioural pattern that can be changed. What is learned helplessness? Somewhere along the line in childhood, you learned you couldn’t control things around you, and decided to stop trying to help yourself. The term comes...
‘Gender dysphoria’ is a term getting attention lately. But it’s only one use of the word dysphoria. What is dysphoria, how do you know it’s your issue, and what can help if so? What is dysphoria? To find the meaning of dysphoria, think about euphoria and feeling on top of the world. Dysphoria is its...
by Andrea Blundell Dating someone with depression can be a lot to navigate. What can help? [**if you believe your partner is in immediate danger of hurting themselves or someone else please get to the nearest hospital or call emergency services.] Dating someone with depression is a choice First things first. Remember that you chose...
Exercise is now recommended for depression. But suffering from depression lowers energy levels. Yoga, a more gentle form of exercise, can seem attractive. But does yoga for depression actually work? And if so, how much yoga would you have to do? Writer Anne Freier takes a look. Research supports yoga for depression A recently released...
Struggling with depression, and just want it to go away? Can’t stop thinking, “How can I stop being depressed?” Editor and lead writer Andrea Blundell discusses depression-busting tactics. How to stop being depressed Depression is not, (contrary to those around you who keep saying such stuffs), solved if you ‘just be positive!’, or ‘don’t let...
