Category Archives: Inspiration

#depression Inspiration – Body for Life Challenge

One of the key areas I have found that helps with feeling more in control and subsequently being happier is fitness. Going and doing exercise helps in many ways. This includes the release of endorphines, sense of achievement, more positive self-esteem, all round health and sense of control. A fair few years ago now IContinueContinue reading “#depression Inspiration – Body for Life Challenge”

#depression Inspiration – Richard Branson

One tactic that we can use to combat depression is to identify role models to inspire us. Provide us with a set of character traits that we can seek to learn from. Richard Branson is just such a character for me. He is a man who portrays a positive smiling approach to life and work.ContinueContinue reading “#depression Inspiration – Richard Branson”

#depression The long wait for the professionals

One of the biggest challenges the depressive faces is the long wait for the professionals. Since being diagnosed it has been a month and a half of waiting for a CBT spot. So what to do in the mean time… Get proactive. Start working to take action to help yourself. The last thing anyone wantsContinueContinue reading “#depression The long wait for the professionals”

Originally posted on rodalena:
“If you want one thing too much it’s likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to like the everyday things, like soft beds and buttermilk—and feisty gentlemen.” -Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove “By the time the shade had reached the river, Augustus would have mellowed with the evening…

#depression – Relate and men .. the report

Relate, the British charity, recently conducted some research into how they deal with men when providing relationship guidance. The findings make for grim reading for men… 1. As many as four in ten children being brought up by their mothers have no contact with their fathers at all 2. Men are at greater risk ofContinueContinue reading “#depression – Relate and men .. the report”