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Dealing with Depression

Introduction What is depression? Most people, children as well as adults, feel low or `blue’ occasionally. Feeling sad is a normal reaction to experiences that are stressful or upsetting. When these feelings go on and on, or dominate and interfere with your whole life, it can become an illness. This illness is called `depression’. Depression [...]

Coping with Depression

We have seen that sadness, hopelessness, loss, low self-regard, loneliness, guilt, and shame are complex conditions or processes. The causes are complex and so are the solutions. It is hard to pull yourself out of a sinkhole of misery, sometimes impossible. When you feel most like doing nothing, you need to DO SOMETHING! When the [...]