Making Motivation Happen: SelfWork #154
Depression can steal your sense of vitality. Your “get up and go” or your motivation to reach goals that mean something to you can disappear. It’s called anhedonia —...
What Is A Victim Mentality? Or Emotional Martyrdom? And How Do They Affect Relationships? SelfWork #153
The victim mentality or emotional martyrdom are personality traits that are very difficult to handle in relationships. It’s when someone people pleases to the point of intense self-sacrifice,...
Six Beginning Exercises To Motivate Growth and Change: SelfWork #152
As I wrote the book Perfectly Hidden Depression, I included over sixty specific exercises that would make reading it more of an emotional challenge, rather than one more chance to analyze. They are...
Your Questions My Answers SelfWork #151
This month has been full of questions from all of you! So I’m taking today to answer even more of them! The topics are diverse. The first is from a man whose dreams haven’t been fulfilled and...
When Depression And The Need To Escape Becomes Self-Destructive: SelfWork #150
Happy 150th Episode!! This is the last of the series on aspects of depression and today, we’re talking about self-destructive ways to escape pain. Depression is innately painful. It’s lonely....
Depression and Anxiety Combined: Could It Be Bipolar II Disorder? SelfWork #149
Depression and anxiety turn up in several mental illnesses. Yet when there’s a definite mood cycle — when one energy level of mood becomes apparent, either a too up or too down, and then...
Love, Boundaries and Manipulation: When Love Is Conditional SelfWork #148
We’re talking about love today on SelfWork. Unconditional love often gets the thumbs up as the best or most selfless kind of love to have. Parents certainly want to welcome their children into...
147 SelfWork:”I’m Better Off Being Alone”: Challenging Seven Beliefs That Lead to Depression and Loneliness
Depression is going to be our topic for a few weeks and today, we’re focusing on the cycle of beliefs that can keep you isolated from others — which can serve to fuel your depression....
146 SelfWork: Your Questions About Perfectly Hidden Depression
It’s been Suicide Awareness Week here in the US so I wanted to feature your questions about the well-researched but still largely unrecognized signal for potential suicide risk — what I...
145 SelfWork: Dealing With the Elephant In The Room: Defending Yourself with Denial, Distraction and Other Defenses
Everyone knows when there’s an elephant in the room. It’s an event, fact or feeling– past or present — that can’t, for some mysterious reason (or not so mysterious) be...
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