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- What are your favorite things to do while sitting in front of your therapy lamp or light box? My top five are:1. Reading2. Eating (breakfast or dinner)3. Drawing4. Petting my cat (he likes to sit under the lamp)5. Checking emails and messages on my...
- I know a lot of the evidence-based therrapy for depression these days are based on mindfulness. In case you don't know what mindfulness is, Jon Kabat-Zinn defines it as "awareness, cultivated by paying attention in a sustained and particular way, on...
- Did poeple see this DS article about SAD?http://www.dailystrength.org/health_blogs/julie-hanks/article/7-ways-to-beat-winter-sadnessGood advice, although I think most of us already know this and are doing these things.Nice to see the sun starting to...
- Every year I really struggle with doing my Christmas shopping. I am not so good at planning ahead, so I always wait until December to start buying gifts. But with the sun now setting before 5 PM, this is the absolute worse time of year me. With the...
- Does anyone else have an aversion to going out after dark? It is not that I am afraid of the dark, its just that I do like being out in the dark. I don't like cold weather either, so when its dark AND cold its even worse. In the winter, the very...
- The other night I tripped on the cord of my therapy lamp, sending it crashing to the floor. Its broken now. :-( Pretty bad timing considering it is only early December. One of the bulbs broke. I found that CVS sells replacement bulbs online, so...
- Hey everyone. I just found out about a Mindfulness Conference that starts tomorrow night. You can stream it online for free! You can also download the archived presentation whenever you want. It is not specific for treating personality disorder,...
- Does anyone else like PJ Harvey's "White Chaulk" album. This music, especially this song, sounds really good to me when I'm depressed.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrCQbrFCQ1I
- Many of you will remember Bashfulbugaboo, the girl from Scotland who used to support people here a lot.. She disappeared from DS in early July. Her last message to me was on July 8. She did not indicate that anything was wrong at the time. Since...
- I found this short film on youtube on psychosis that I think is pretty good: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM3M5y84JjM I think it is helpful because it makes you understand that many people get psychosis and have these same types of experence,...
- I would like to get a light therapy lamp, but I am not sure which one to get. Are there any features I should look for? I like the looks of one called "Day-Light Sky" by the Day-Light company. Does anyone use this model? If so, would you...
- Well, its now late November and we are well into the SAD depression season. I do not really feel sad, but I feel my SAD manifesting as APATHY. I do not have any interest in doing much of anything. I have no motivation to start any project or...
- Please watch this video. She's right.http://www.youtube.com/user/itgetsbetterproject#p/f/185/xZKZ9JqDHBc
- Summer is our season! Lets make the most of it while it last. There's still plenty of summer time left, so lets enjoy it! Lets get out an have fun. Lets work hard, and play harder.
- I found out that a new book/memoirs on BPD is coming out soon. I know there are already a lot of books on the subject, but this one looks like a must-read for anyone with this disorder, at least that's what the expert reviewers are saying. It...