Depression Archives

Partnership – the third thread for Depression Recovery

Partnership for depression recovery is between you and me. To move you ever closer towards a life that works.

Firefighting – the second thread for Depression Recovery

Firefighting for Depression recovery is to reduce arousal and rumination. This improves sleep and will give energy and hope.

Hope – the first thread for Depression Recovery

Restoring hope is the first essential thread for depression recovery. Learn why that is and how you can do that.

Three Threads for Depression Recovery

How do I weave your Depression Recovery? There are three threads: Hope, Firefighting and Partnership.

Depression Vicious and Virtuous Cycles

Understanding how depression takes hold and how to free yourself with depression vicious and virtuous cycles.

Meditation for Depression – why would you recommend that?

Meditation for Depression is not the first stage of recovery but can help you later on when you are recovering.

The Human Givens Institute summarises what can be said about antidepressants

“Antidepressants work in aggregate about as well as placebo which means about one third of people benefit. But of course they do not pretend to treat the root cause and so there is a high rate of relapse. And a quarter of users will do less well than placebo.” And there are side effects – […]

Evidence of NHS failure with nationwide depression counselling

IAPT stands for Improving Access to Psychological Therapies and is the NHS flagship policy to bring fast and effective therapy (principally Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)) to a grateful nation as it struggles with our epidemic of depression and anxieties. It is easy to be critical of such efforts – and suggesting the inevitability of NHS […]