Thought Nuggets

Stress Headaches: Two Layers of Stress Headaches

I want to offer a follow-up thought to my last post about the how to cope with stress.  If you have ever suffered from stress headaches, you may be wondering how the two layer approach applies.  It’s difficult to imagine any living organism that doesn’t automatically change in some way in response to adverse conditions [...]

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Tips for How to Cope with Stress: Get a Framework That Makes Stress Tips More Practical

Why Learning How to Cope with Stress is Confusing Learning how to cope with stress can be very confusing, but it doesn’t have to be.  It’s confusing primarily because we don’t become interested in learning until we are in the middle of stressful situations.  Who wants to learn about how to cope with stress if [...]

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Symptoms of Depression in Men

The symptoms of depression in men often show up in ways that people do not expect.  For example, clinical depression is more frequent among women than men.   Women have more suicide attempts than men.  But among those who attempt suicide, men are more likely to die from their attempt at suicide.   Depression should always be [...]

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Treatment Resistant Depression Requires Expert Troubleshooting

Treatment resistant depression nearly always requires fresh eyes to evaluate the current evaluation of a person’s diagnosis, the exact components of treatment, the history, and the perspectives of the man or woman being treated.  For example, many psychiatrists and physicians are not well-versed in psychological treatments for trauma such as EMDR.  As a result, sometimes [...]

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How to Treat Depression: A Key Question Provides a Handle for Your Decisions about Your Own Treatment

It’s a good idea to know something about how to treat depression whether on not you are doctor.  The knowledge can assist you if you are depressed and it can be useful when helping someone with depression.  There is one question to ask that functions like a handle on a fairly complex subject. A key [...]

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How to Overcome Depression When it is Just Beginning

A single bout of depression can often be a person’s friend because it stops them in their tracks to consider some sorely needed changes.   Chronic depression and recurring depression requires a different perspective.  But if you want to know how to overcome depression in the best way possible, then take the lesson that it may [...]

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How to Help Someone with Depression and Suicidal Thoughts

It can be very scary to have a friend or a family member who has expressed suicidal thoughts in words or actions.  In my brief comments here, I want to offer a simple starting point for how to help someone with depression when suicidal thoughts are part of the picture.  At the same time, I [...]

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How to Deal with Depression: Take the Reigns

How to Deal with Depression by Seeing it as Something Separate From You One of most agonizing aspects of clinical depression is the feeling that such a dark mood has taken over.   Many people begin to feel empowered when they realize that the depression cloud is a thing separate from who they are as a [...]

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Coping with Depression Requires Pacing Yourself

Coping with depression involves adjusting your expectation to the reality of where you are at, rather than the “reality” of where you think you should be.   If a man is depressed but doesn’t know it, he may become increasingly frustrated with himself as makes different vain attempts to feel better.  His old bag of trick [...]

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How to Cope with Depression When it is Slow to Leave You

Here are a few tips for how to cope with depression when it doesn’t go away as fast as you would like.  The first tip is to adjust your expectations to be more realistic.  Clinical depression is a medical condition of one of your internal organs:  the brain.  The condition took time to form and [...]

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