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you will be able to find information and peace of mind..
If you are having trouble accepting your illness,
please visit
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page, as it will undoubtedly give you some food for thought. Depression and
related illnesses can also be a gift, if we are able to learn to use it...
This area of the Phoenix website aims to inform, eductate and help individuals to understand depression, related illnesses, and other mental health illnesses. Each section listed to your left in green deals with a specific topics and in each section you will find helpful links to further information, tools, more resources and a comprehensive summary of the illness and how to help or get help.
We realise here at phoenix that feelings of suicide do occur during emotional or mental health problems, so we would like to share the following document with you. Talking about suicide does not encourage it, on the contrary, it helps to educate, inform and make the topic less taboo:
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The following list of resources is a comprehensive list of e-books available for free download off the web:
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THE SHADOW OF THE SHADOW
The Shadow of the Shadow.......
Although the person who is depressed is no longer as afraid as he was, he
may be unable to lose a feeling of apprehension. This puzzling, why should
you have this vague feeling of anxiety as if something terrible is about
to happen, why should you feel like this?
The feeling is most likely to come when first waking in the morning,
before having time to review the now more cheerful aspects of the
situation, it is an emotional habit, brought on by months or years of true
anxiety, It has been called the shadow of the shadow.
Time and acceptance alone can dispel this, a habit must be broken, a
shadows shadow lost and the quickest way to do this is to replace it with
other memories, other feelings. It is surprising how close to the surface
normal feelings lie when you once make the effort to rid yourself of the
shadow of the shadow.
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LIVING ON YOUR OWN…
To motivate yourself to make yourself happier is also hard as that is
natural.
Wher you live on your own, there are limited things to bring you out of the
unhappiness, this is for you -
So many people suffering with depression, not only complain of loss of
confidence but also that they do not feel part of the world about them.
Its hard to make contact with other people. It is as if others are in their
world and you in yours.
When having severe problems like grief and depression, without low self ego
it is not easy for any of us to be interested in a neighbours new car. It is
this narrowing of interest experienced in depression that leads to a feeling
of withdrawal from the rest of the world. It is not easy to contact people
if, while talking to them, your mind is continually reverting into yourself.
Also for the person who is depressed this world of introspection is charged
with such intense suffering that it is impossible for you to feel in tune
with anyone who can laugh light-heartedly. Introspective suffering has
withdrawn you from the world of normal living and you will not feel part of
this again until your interest is in it and not in yourself.
This feeling of inability to be part of the world around you is accentuated
by your impatience to step straight out of your world into normality, that
is, by your impatience for quick recovery. The transference is usually
gradual. It may take weeks for you to be sufficiently interested in everyday
life to feel part of it.
It is a mistake for you to try to force normal feeling. You must wait for it
to return as it inevitably does. It is as though your normal emotions are
frozen and you must wait for them to thaw out.
It is also easy for a person to feel a sense of withdrawal, to be sensitive
and suspicious. You may think that people are talking about you, do not be
upset at this.
Look ahead to the peace of recovery and let time carry you there, when you
walk through the streets wondering if you will ever be in the same world as
the passers by, remember that you will be there just as soon as you lose
interest in your world of fear and worry.
Do not try to force normal feeling, let time bring it back to you.
if others act strangely towards you, practise shrugging your shoulders.
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