When friends and family don't understand depression, it can be hurtful but isn't because they don't care. Many people believe incorrect things about the causes of depression or that it can be cured by willpower. While their lack of understanding is difficult, it doesn't mean they love the depressed person any less. It's best to focus on others who can provide compassionate support and not take others' reactions personally, as their views often come from not experiencing depression themselves. Surrounding oneself with supportive people who understand depression is important for coping when symptoms are severe.
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Ben, an overweight 7th grader, struggled to keep up during gym class. He would stand on the side with his awkward classmate, and they bonded over trying to avoid physical activity. When Ben grew older, he was accepted to a few good colleges, but he kept dropping out of school. He hung out with his old friend from junior high, who was unsuccessfully attempting to get into medical school. The two of them took a look at themselves- college dropouts from a small town on Long Island- and decided that the one thing they excelled at was eating. Especially eating ice cream. Ben Cohen and his friend Jerry Greenfield sent $5 to Penn State University for a correspondence course on ice cream making. They pooled their savings and opened a small ice cream store, and named it Ben and Jerry's.
http://positivetranceformations.com.au/blog/the-five-stages-of-grief-2/ According to Dr Kübler-Ross, there are five well-defined stages in the grief process, all of which are important parts of the way that we react to the inevitable loss that life brings. If we are unable to express grief during any stage of the process, the grief can become blocked or bottled up, and will need to be released later.
Review of the latest research in the field on grief therapy and practice tips for practitioners. Topics include:
• The difference between normal grief and complicated or prolonged grief
• Research and issues involved in the inclusion of “Prolonged Grief Disorder” in DSM-V
• Cognitive behavioral techniques to treat prolonged grief
• The importance of self-awareness and the necessity of self-care when providing grief counseling
• Different cultural views of death
Presented by Susan Stuber, Ph.D. at the Philadelphia Society of Clinical Psychologists continuing education conference at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, March 22, 2013. A copy of the full presentation notes accompanying these slides may be obtained by contacting Dr. Stuber at sstuber@susanstuberphd.com.
A Presentation of a Story with many points of Life Lessons for Reflection.
For the Video (with Narration and Comments) in Hokkien, please check out the Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTbBOzUPiMQ&t=5s
(Dedicated to my Hokkien Dhamma Class students at PBHP and the young and old with an affinity for Dhamma.)
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Review of the latest research in the field on grief therapy and practice tips for practitioners. Topics include:
• The difference between normal grief and complicated or prolonged grief
• Research and issues involved in the inclusion of “Prolonged Grief Disorder” in DSM-V
• Cognitive behavioral techniques to treat prolonged grief
• The importance of self-awareness and the necessity of self-care when providing grief counseling
• Different cultural views of death
Presented by Susan Stuber, Ph.D. at the Philadelphia Society of Clinical Psychologists continuing education conference at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, March 22, 2013. A copy of the full presentation notes accompanying these slides may be obtained by contacting Dr. Stuber at sstuber@susanstuberphd.com.
A Presentation of a Story with many points of Life Lessons for Reflection.
For the Video (with Narration and Comments) in Hokkien, please check out the Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTbBOzUPiMQ&t=5s
(Dedicated to my Hokkien Dhamma Class students at PBHP and the young and old with an affinity for Dhamma.)
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Depression is different from other illnesses in that, in addition to the physiological symptoms (loss of appetite, nervousness, sleeplessness, fatigue), there are the accompanying thoughts that can be so incredibly painful.
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1. When Family Members and Friends
Don’t Understand Depression
By Therese Borchard
Published Mar 16, 2016
We’ve come a little way in reducing the stigma that’s associated with mental
illness, but not nearly far enough. Consider these results pulled from a public
attitude survey in Tarrant County, Texas, conducted by the county’s Mental
Health Connection and the University of North Texas in Denton to determine the
community’s view of mental illness:
More than 50 percent believe major depression might be caused by the
way someone was raised, while more than one in five believe it is “God’s
will.”
2. More than 50 percent believe major depression might result from people
“expecting too much from life,” and more than 40 percent believe it is the
result of a lack of willpower.
More than 60 percent said an effective treatment for major depression is to
“pull yourself together.”
Unfortunately, these beliefs are often held by those closest to us — by the very
people from whom we so desperately want support.
Resenting them for their lack of understanding isn’t going to make things better,
though. It almost always makes things worse. Whenever I hit a severe depressive
episode, I am reminded once more that I can’t make people understand
depression any more than I can make a person who hasn’t gone through labor
understand the intense experience that is unique to that situation. Some people
are able to respond with compassion to something that they don’t understand.
But that is very rare.
Don’t Mistake Their Lack of Understanding For a Lack of
Love
Whenever I try to open the doors of communication and express to a family
member or friend how I am feeling — when I try to articulate to them the pain of
depression — and am shut down, I usually come away extremely hurt. I
immediately assume that they don’t want to hear it because they don’t love me.
They don’t care enough about me to want to know how I am doing.
But distinguishing between the two is critical in maintaining a loving relationship
with them. My husband explained this to me very clearly the other day. Just
because someone doesn’t understand depression or the complexity of mood
disorders doesn’t mean they don’t love me. Not at all. They just have no
capability of wrapping their brain around an experience they haven’t had, or to a
reality that is invisible, confusing, and intricate.
“I wouldn’t understand depression if I didn’t live with you,” he explained. “I would
change the subject, too, when it comes up, because it’s very uncomfortable to a
person who isn’t immersed in the daily challenges of the illness.”
This is a common mistake that many of us who are in emotional pain make. We
assume that if a person loves us, he or she would want to be there for us, would
want to hear about our struggle, and would want to make it better. We want more
than anything for the person to say, “I’m so sorry. I hope you feel better soon.”
The fact that they aren’t able to do that, however, does not mean they don’t love
us. It just means there is a cognitive block, if you will, on their part — a
disconnect — that prevents them from comprehending things beyond the scope
of their experience, and from things they can see, touch, taste, smell, and feel.
Don’t Take It Personally
It is incredibly difficult not to take a person’s lack of response or less-than-
compassionate remark personally, but when we fall into this trap, we give away
3. our power and become prey to other people’s opinions of us. “Don’t Take
Anything Personally” is the second agreement of Don Miguel Ruiz’s classic The
Four Agreements; the idea saves me from lots of suffering if I am strong enough
to absorb the wisdom. He writes:
Whatever happens around you, don’t take it personally … Nothing other people
do is because of you. It is because of themselves. All people live in their own
dream, in their own mind; they are in a completely different world from the one we
live in. When we take something personally, we make the assumption that they
know what is in our world, and we try to impose our world on their world.
Even when a situation seems so personal, even if others insult you directly, it has
nothing to do with you. What they say, what they do, and the opinions they give
are according to the agreements they have in their own minds … Taking things
personally makes you easy prey for these predators, the black magicians. They
can hook you easily with one little opinion and feed you whatever poison they
want, and because you take it personally, you eat it up ….
Protect Yourself
I have learned that when I fall into a dangerous place — when I am so low
that mindfulnessand other techniques that can be helpful for mild to moderate
depression simply don’t work — I have to avoid, to the best of my ability, people
who trigger feelings of self-loathing. For example, some people in my life adhere
tightly to the law of attraction and the philosophies of the book The Secret by
Rhonda Byrne that preach that we create our reality with our thoughts. They have
been able to successfully navigate their emotions with lots of mind control and
therefore have trouble grasping when mind control isn’t enough to pull someone
out of a deep depression.
I struggle with this whenever I fall into a depressive episode, as I feel inherently
weak and pathetic for not being able to pull myself out of my pain — even if it
means simply not crying in front of my daughter — with the type of mind control
they practice, or even mindfulness or attention to my thoughts. This, then, feeds
the ruminations and the self-hatred, and I’m caught in a loop of self-flagellation.
Even if they aren’t thinking I’m a weak person, their philosophies trigger this self-
denigration and angst in me, so it’s better to wait until I reach a place where I can
embrace myself with self-compassion before I spend an afternoon or evening
with them. If I do need to be with people who trigger toxic thoughts, I sometimes
practice visualizations, like picturing them as children (they simply can’t
understand the complexity of mood disorders), or visualizing myself as a stable
water wall, untouched by their words that can rush over me.
Focus On the People Who Do Understand
In order to survive depression, we must concentrate on the people who DO get it
and surround ourselves with that support, especially when we are fragile. I
consider myself extremely lucky. I have six people who understand what I’m
going through and are ready to dole out compassion whenever I dial up their
numbers. I live with an extraordinary man who reminds me on a daily basis that I
am a strong, persevering person and that I will get through this. Whenever my
symptoms overtake me and I feel lost inside a haunted house of a brain, he
reminds me that I have a five hundred pound gorilla on my back, and that my
struggle doesn’t mean that I am a weak person not capable of mind control. At
4. critical periods when I’m easily crushed by people’s perceptions of me, I must rely
on the people in my life that truly get it. I must surround myself with folks who can
pump me up and fill me with courage and self-compassion.
Depression support groups — both online and in person — are invaluable in this
regard for offering peer support: perspectives from people in the trenches who
can offer key insights on how to deal with the invisible beast. I created two online
groups, Group Beyond Blue on Facebook and Project Beyond Blue, but there are
many forums worth checking out, like the ones at Psych Central. Actual support
groups hosted by such organizations as National Alliance on Mental Illness
(NAMI) and Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA), and support
offered by a therapist, are also great resources to help give you the coping tools
you need to get by in a world that doesn’t get it.
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