Your Relationship with your Condition

It sounds strange to say there’s an emotional dynamic we have with illness or pain conditions, but it’s absolutely true. Anything we must interact with on a daily basis, which affects our life, causes loss, frustration and alienation, which demands our attention and which we strive to understand, we end up in a relationship with.[…]

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Are You Depressed?

About one in 10 North Americans suffers some form of depression, according to the National Institute of Mental Health. Women experience depression twice as often as men. Depression has devastating effects on a person’s relationships with family and friends, on the ability to do productive work and, of course, on the ability to enjoy life.[…]