Beyond Blue http://blog.beliefnet.com/beyondblue Beliefnet Voices - Therese J. Borchard Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:47:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 beyondblue1http://feedburner.google.com Therapy Notes: Give Amy a Bottle http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/beyondblue1/~3/U5nV4kg227o/therapy-notes-give-amy-a-bottle.html http://blog.beliefnet.com/beyondblue/2013/04/therapy-notes-give-amy-a-bottle.html#comments Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:47:25 +0000 Beyond Blue http://blog.beliefnet.com/beyondblue/?p=7144 From my therapy notebook: I now know who to blame for my feelings of panic and anxiety … Amy. It’s all her fault. That’s what I call my amygdala, the delinquent cluster of neurons in the limbic system considered by most neurobiologists as the fear center of the...

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]]> From my therapy notebook: I now know who to blame for my feelings of panic and anxiety … Amy. It’s all her fault. That’s what I call my amygdala, the delinquent cluster of neurons in the limbic system considered by most neurobiologists as the fear center of the...

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]]> http://blog.beliefnet.com/beyondblue/2013/04/therapy-notes-give-amy-a-bottle.html/feed/ 2 http://blog.beliefnet.com/beyondblue/2013/04/therapy-notes-give-amy-a-bottle.html 8 Ways to Overcome Envy http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/beyondblue1/~3/VENEQn35Le8/8-ways-to-overcome-envy-2.html http://blog.beliefnet.com/beyondblue/2013/04/8-ways-to-overcome-envy-2.html#comments Tue, 23 Apr 2013 10:00:41 +0000 Beyond Blue http://blog.beliefnet.com/beyondblue/?p=6941 I know that the fastest way to despair is by comparing one's insides with another's outsides, and that Max Ehrmann, the author of the classic poem "Desiderata," was absolutely correct when he said that if you compare yourself with others you become either vain or bitter, or, as Helen Keller put it: "Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than...

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]]> I know that the fastest way to despair is by comparing one's insides with another's outsides, and that Max Ehrmann, the author of the classic poem "Desiderata," was absolutely correct when he said that if you compare yourself with others you become either vain or bitter, or, as Helen Keller put it: "Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than...

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]]> http://blog.beliefnet.com/beyondblue/2013/04/8-ways-to-overcome-envy-2.html/feed/ 3 http://blog.beliefnet.com/beyondblue/2013/04/8-ways-to-overcome-envy-2.html Therapy Notes: Forecast Some Backsliding http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/beyondblue1/~3/zl6uglxmKJc/therapy-notes-forecast-some-backsliding.html http://blog.beliefnet.com/beyondblue/2013/04/therapy-notes-forecast-some-backsliding.html#comments Thu, 18 Apr 2013 10:39:32 +0000 Beyond Blue http://blog.beliefnet.com/beyondblue/?p=7137 From my therapy notebook: The path to mental health is an uneven process: for every two steps forward, you move one and a half back. But if you know this before you start walking, you’ll be less tempted to throw up your arms at the first relapse and say “to hell with...

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]]> From my therapy notebook: The path to mental health is an uneven process: for every two steps forward, you move one and a half back. But if you know this before you start walking, you’ll be less tempted to throw up your arms at the first relapse and say “to hell with...

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]]> http://blog.beliefnet.com/beyondblue/2013/04/getting-through-the-rough-spots.html/feed/ 1 http://blog.beliefnet.com/beyondblue/2013/04/getting-through-the-rough-spots.html Some Quotes on Solitude and Self-Nurturing I Like http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/beyondblue1/~3/xSY79HLKFYs/some-quotes-on-solitude-and-self-nurturing-i-like.html http://blog.beliefnet.com/beyondblue/2013/04/some-quotes-on-solitude-and-self-nurturing-i-like.html#comments Mon, 15 Apr 2013 10:08:17 +0000 Beyond Blue http://blog.beliefnet.com/beyondblue/?p=6967 At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh or fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is, But neither arrest nor movement. And do not call it fixity, Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards, Neither...

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]]> At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh or fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is, But neither arrest nor movement. And do not call it fixity, Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards, Neither...

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]]> http://blog.beliefnet.com/beyondblue/2013/04/some-quotes-on-solitude-and-self-nurturing-i-like.html/feed/ 1 http://blog.beliefnet.com/beyondblue/2013/04/some-quotes-on-solitude-and-self-nurturing-i-like.html 30 Ways Motherhood Is Like a Mental Illness http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/beyondblue1/~3/toprZnhIhJk/30-ways-motherhood-is-like-a-mental-illness.html http://blog.beliefnet.com/beyondblue/2013/04/30-ways-motherhood-is-like-a-mental-illness.html#comments Thu, 11 Apr 2013 10:00:14 +0000 Beyond Blue http://blog.beliefnet.com/beyondblue/?p=7047 Motherhood provides a host of useful lessons on how to live with mental illness, and vice versa. Here are just a few things the two have in common (in my opinion, of course): 1. Five years into both of them, plastic surgery is your only way of looking young again. 2. There's only one boss, and it's best if...

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]]> Motherhood provides a host of useful lessons on how to live with mental illness, and vice versa. Here are just a few things the two have in common (in my opinion, of course): 1. Five years into both of them, plastic surgery is your only way of looking young again. 2. There's only one boss, and it's best if...

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]]> http://blog.beliefnet.com/beyondblue/2013/04/30-ways-motherhood-is-like-a-mental-illness.html/feed/ 0 http://blog.beliefnet.com/beyondblue/2013/04/30-ways-motherhood-is-like-a-mental-illness.html 10 Reasons Why Catholicism Is the Best Religion For the Mentally Ill http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/beyondblue1/~3/L1qPz7Ii8sk/10-reasons-why-catholicism-is-the-best-religion-for-the-mentally-ill.html http://blog.beliefnet.com/beyondblue/2013/04/10-reasons-why-catholicism-is-the-best-religion-for-the-mentally-ill.html#comments Tue, 09 Apr 2013 10:23:31 +0000 Beyond Blue http://blog.beliefnet.com/beyondblue/?p=7028 Sorry in advance if this post offends. Just though I'd write out why I think Catholicism is, hands down, the best religion for the mentally ill. Here are a few cool devotions and traditions within the Catholic faith that work well with those brains that are, well, creatively...

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]]> Sorry in advance if this post offends. Just though I'd write out why I think Catholicism is, hands down, the best religion for the mentally ill. Here are a few cool devotions and traditions within the Catholic faith that work well with those brains that are, well, creatively...

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]]> http://blog.beliefnet.com/beyondblue/2013/04/10-reasons-why-catholicism-is-the-best-religion-for-the-mentally-ill.html/feed/ 12 http://blog.beliefnet.com/beyondblue/2013/04/10-reasons-why-catholicism-is-the-best-religion-for-the-mentally-ill.html On Being an Ex-Suicide http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/beyondblue1/~3/JfM1PywjkEs/dear-god-on-being-an-ex-suicide.html http://blog.beliefnet.com/beyondblue/2013/04/dear-god-on-being-an-ex-suicide.html#comments Mon, 08 Apr 2013 10:24:48 +0000 Beyond Blue http://blog.beliefnet.com/beyondblue/?p=6987 Paul’s letter to the Ephesians (5:8-14) reads: Brothers and Sisters: You were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light, for light produces every kind of goodness and righteousness and truth. Try to learn what is pleasing to the Lord. Take no part in the fruitless works of darkness;...

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]]> Paul’s letter to the Ephesians (5:8-14) reads: Brothers and Sisters: You were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light, for light produces every kind of goodness and righteousness and truth. Try to learn what is pleasing to the Lord. Take no part in the fruitless works of darkness;...

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]]> http://blog.beliefnet.com/beyondblue/2013/04/dear-god-on-being-an-ex-suicide.html/feed/ 3 http://blog.beliefnet.com/beyondblue/2013/04/dear-god-on-being-an-ex-suicide.html Manic: One Day at a Time http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/beyondblue1/~3/Uwx7LX1UHx4/manic-one-day-at-a-time-2.html http://blog.beliefnet.com/beyondblue/2013/04/manic-one-day-at-a-time-2.html#comments Thu, 04 Apr 2013 10:25:28 +0000 Beyond Blue http://blog.beliefnet.com/beyondblue/?p=7038 The epilogue of Terri Cheney's bestselling book "Manic" is great reading for any manic depressive. I'm sitting in my favorite café, writing a line, crossing it out. Writing a line, crossing it out. My soft-boiled egg will be cold by the...

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]]> The epilogue of Terri Cheney's bestselling book "Manic" is great reading for any manic depressive. I'm sitting in my favorite café, writing a line, crossing it out. Writing a line, crossing it out. My soft-boiled egg will be cold by the...

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]]> http://blog.beliefnet.com/beyondblue/2013/04/manic-one-day-at-a-time-2.html/feed/ 1 http://blog.beliefnet.com/beyondblue/2013/04/manic-one-day-at-a-time-2.html Loving a Manic Depressive http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/beyondblue1/~3/b-kfHzmE0m4/loving-a-manic-depressive-2.html http://blog.beliefnet.com/beyondblue/2013/04/loving-a-manic-depressive-2.html#comments Tue, 02 Apr 2013 10:07:11 +0000 Beyond Blue http://blog.beliefnet.com/beyondblue/?p=7035 Among my favorite essays on loving someone with a mental illness are those penned by Anna Bishop, my blogging buddy James's wife. She's written five outstanding posts on what it's like to be a passenger on the rollercoaster of a marriage with a person diagnosed...

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]]> Among my favorite essays on loving someone with a mental illness are those penned by Anna Bishop, my blogging buddy James's wife. She's written five outstanding posts on what it's like to be a passenger on the rollercoaster of a marriage with a person diagnosed...

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