February 14, 2020

​The Valentine’s Day hype A Valentine’s Day to rememberI had never heard of Valentine’s Day until we moved to Canada in 1994. In retrospect, I would say I was probably too young to know about it. My parents did not celebrate Valentine’s Day, just their wedding anniversary, so it was not anything I had seen

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February 7, 2020

How does clearing out your mess clear out clutter depression? Clutter depression.It’s not an official term, but here are some very interesting things I learned about mess and depression. It is true that whenever my surroundings disappeared in a general mess, my mind followed. I am not sure which came first. Depression, which made it

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January 31, 2020

If you don’t know where to start… …here are some thoughts on home exercise.A few years back, I got to a point in my depression, where I had some stable moments. All the therapy and different techniques I had found worked together to set the stage for my eventual breakthrough. My therapists and doctor kept

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January 24, 2020

Does depression change your personality? Making it through depression and personality change.One day, after battling depression for nearly a decade and finally being reasonably stable, I looked in the mirror and what I saw shocked me. The personality change was shocking. The person staring back at me looked like a stranger. In fact, I did

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January 16, 2020

The Pet Effect and its link to depression The Pet EffectThe past few weeks I spent a lot of time on Facebook, checking in on the Kitten Lady’s page. For some time now, I have followed her on Facebook and YouTube. She is my hero when it comes to kitten and cat rescue work. I

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January 8, 2020

Can inflammation cause depression? InflammationThat usually makes me think about a cut on my finger that gets really red. Or, a sore throat that’s “inflamed”. It could also be when my allergies act up and I have a stuffy and itchy nose. But, inflammation has never made me think of my depression. And maybe it

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