How To Tell Sadness From Depression

Written by Mr. Dave Turo-Shields, ACSW, LCSW


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Title: HOW TO TELL SADNESS FROM DEPRESSION Author: Dave Turo-Shields, ACSW, LCSW E-mail: mailto:editor@overcoming-depression.com Copyright: by Dave Turo-Shields, ACSW, LCSW Web Address: http://www.Overcoming-Depression.com Word Count: 740 Category: Mental Health

HOW TO TELL SADNESS FROM DEPRESSION

You have and will experience sadness. It might berepparttar 130832 loss of a job, pet or a loved one. Yes, even a loved one. The trouble is, particularly here inrepparttar 130833 United States, we have a quick-fix for everything... why not sadness too?

Our quick-fix for sadness is that it's simply not allowed. Healthy purging of sad feelings is great for you physically and wonderful for your mental health. When you stuffrepparttar 130834 expression of healthy sadness it may lead to health problems, interpersonal issues and depression.

So,repparttar 130835 first lesson is FEEL your sadness over whatever issue is at hand. It doesn't make you weak or less a man or woman to do so. Yes, I have to say "woman" today too, because women have also begun to placerepparttar 130836 same negative meaning on expressing feelings of sadness; so they hold back too.

There are Five Basic Stages you will go through with a significant change or loss in your life. They are:

1) Shock/Denial 2) Anger 3) Asking "What if..." questions or making "If only" statements. 4) Sadness 5) Acceptance

Please keep in mind several points aboutrepparttar 130837 five statements made above. First, each one is NORMAL! You may cycle throughrepparttar 130838 steps several times and may not do so in repparttar 130839 order listed above.

The only time these steps become a problem is when you become stuck at a particular step. Here's an example.

I met a woman about a year ago. She'd been married over 25 years. She and her husband were planning on traveling after he retired. He died within a year of retirement from cancer. She came to see me three years after his death.

She had become stuck at step 3 above. She questioned, over and over again, whether she had done everything she could for him and all their family during those last days before his death. After about a year of ruminating minute-by- minute, she became quite seriously depressed. Then later, she was referred to me by her physician.

We worked through her questions from step 3. She then went through a normal period of being angry overrepparttar 130840 loss of her husband and how that had changed her life and retirement plans. She felt appropriately sad aboutrepparttar 130841 loss of her best friend.

Curiosity-The Questioning Force

Written by Victor K. Pryles "The Creativity Coach"


Curiosity- The Questioning Force By Victor K. Pryles "The Creativity Coach"

Just how curious are you?

The reason we even wish to be creative lies in this human faculty of curiosity. Withoutrepparttar essential quality there is no engine to start our questing. You hear some gossip; your curiosity is raised. You see a headline and you're drawn intorepparttar 130830 story. A movie trailer teases you visually, with words, action music and actors--- and you wish to seerepparttar 130831 entire film.

Every form of advertising and promotion, commerce and entertainment is based on understanding this strong desire to explore that dwells inrepparttar 130832 heart of everyone. You have an innate interest in whatrepparttar 130833 world has to offer, what makes it all tick, what ideas others may have and which ideas you may develop.

This natural inclination is deeply embedded into our brain's neurons and pathways and is so vital that your very survival is based on its existence. Curiosity causes us to investigate things. It urges us to invent, to explore, to experiment and build.

Imagine where humanity would be without it!

If that stick were placed on that rock and spun with enough force and friction next to some dry grassrepparttar 130834 miracle of fire could be produced. Fire, which had belonged only to Mother Nature as a wild force of unpredictable power and capacity, found its way into our very hands to be used and directed. Born of our curiosity. In our deepened simian eyes we could see it rage across plains, eat whole forests and explode in intense heat. Our curiosity brought us an invention in primordial history that was as dynamic and life changing asrepparttar 130835 18th century development ofrepparttar 130836 incandescent light bulb.

As a child you were constantly curious. You wanted to learnrepparttar 130837 'why'repparttar 130838 'how come'--- about everything. You drove your poor parents wild with your questions, didn't you?

What happened? In adulthood we seem to ask fewer and fewer questions. It's not only because we 'found' so many answers alongrepparttar 130839 way. Rather,repparttar 130840 very 'essence' of questing seems to have faded asrepparttar 130841 'day-to-day' concerns of life and commerce impinge on our living.

Adults say they abhor 'idle curiosity' considering it some sort of indulgence that is unworthy, with no real purpose behind it. We want all our pastimes and efforts to contain 'useful knowledge'--after all that is an adult requirement. We refuse to leave our 'comfort zones' to explore. It becomes harder and harder to go outside these perimeters and if we do occasionally, we always feel somehow threatened or overwhelmed.

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