Tag: depression

• Painting in Gray

  The author shares their deep love for Christmas but struggles with feelings of sadness during the season. They reflect on the impact of weather on their mood, the weight of grief around them, and emphasize the importance of acknowledging emotions without the need to fix them.

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  December 22, 2024

  Life

  alone, bright lights, christmas, cloudiness, cloudy, darkness, depression, dimness, ebb, ebb and flow, encouragement, fall, fall blues, family, flow, friends, givelovelievemore, gloominess, God, God cares, gray, grayness, grey, greyness, heart, just for today, Life, live, loneliness, loss, loved ones, mental-health, night, painting in gray, peace, sad, sadness, sun, triumph, winter, winter blues, you are not alone

• Fear: Is a Hell of a drug

    If depression was my most favorite blanket, fear was my comfort food. I’d eat it before I brushed my teeth, ate it three (3) times per day and as a snack between meals. I was consuming fear at an alarming rate. It started off as something I did every once in a while, casually,…

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  February 7, 2018

  Fear

  acknowledge, comfort food, condemn, consume, courage, delirium, depression, difficulty, f-word, Fear, heart, influence, Life, revelation

• The absence of dreams

    We live in a generation of absolute statements (funny how that sentence is indeed absolute itself).  For today’s absolution, we look towards dreams.  I hear often, “Having a dream isn’t enough.  You have to have a goal, a plan and execute.”  Then it will be presumably enough, right?  While I am a supporter of…

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  April 18, 2016

  Life

  courage, depression, dreams, encouragement, exist, life, Love, meditation