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Wednesday, January 26, 2011
5 steps for letting depression be your teacher

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A fairly recent television ad for an antidepressant that shall remain nameless used the tagline "Depression hurts." And really, you couldn't say anything more truthful about this amorphous and much-studied yet little-understood condition. Depression can sap the life out of you, make you feel worthless, self-destructive, and like there's nothing in the world that's real except for the pain. I know the feeling, believe me. I know how people with depression can be so sensitive to painful situations and triggers that we can sometimes literally be afraid of normal human interaction for fear of the pain. We may pop pills, abuse drugs or alcohol, or numb ourselves in a myriad of other ways just to feel that we can cope. Let's face it simply: Depression sucks.


So how can something so painful be our teacher?


Read the rest of the blog piece on Huffington Post


Melissa Kirk is the co-author of Depression 101: A Practical Guide to Treatments, Self-Help Strategies, and Preventing Relapse .
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