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  6 Things Depression Doesn’t Mean

  Posted on September 13, 2011 by Kat French in managing attention

  “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” – Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride One of the harder things about living with depression can be the assumptions that other people–even people who love you–make about the illness. Today I wanted to give you a heads up about [...]

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  But You Seemed So Happy

  Posted on September 5, 2011 by Kat French in managing attention, relationships

  When I previously posted about depression and suicidal thoughts, a dear “real world” friend of mine sent me a message saying “But you always seemed so happy!” That’s incredibly common among people who suffer from depression and suicidal thoughts. We’re often really good at covering our disease. It’s often baffling when someone you know takes [...]

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  A little hope for the seasonally-affected and disordered.

  Posted on January 24, 2011 by Kat French in managing attention

  There is a book that I read my kids, called The Spring Rabbit. It’s by Joyce Dunbar and Susan Varley, and it was a gift to my eldest when he was a baby, from Akiko, one of my conversational English students when we lived in Japan. A single phrase is repeated several times throughout the [...]

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  Maybe Depression is Your Mind’s Way of Saying “You Suck.”

  Posted on October 4, 2010 by Kat French in managing attention

  Please excuse the rather brusque post title. I’m currently channeling my inner Sue Sylvester. Lately, I’ve been pondering the concept of “productive depression.”  Have you ever heard that term before? I hadn’t either, till a year or so ago, when a counselor pointed out that I was currently in one at the time.  The brief, [...]

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  There are no hopeless cases.

  Posted on April 2, 2010 by Kat French in real life, relationships

  This could easily be a really sad story. There’s no natural explanation for why it isn’t. That’s what makes it powerful. Change happens. There are no hopeless cases where God is concerned.

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  Changing the conversation about mental health

  Posted on January 19, 2010 by Kat French in managing attention, relationships

  It’s not about how sick you are, it’s about how functional you are, and in the case of some people, it’s probably more functional than many people whose (unaddressed) dysfunctions aren’t at DSM-IV diagnosable levels.

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