Good feedback is one of the best motivators

Some feedback is destructive and demoralising,but it needn’t be. There are a few simple rules to aim to follow when giving it. Look for them when seeking it. [...]

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Thomas Edison,one of the greatest failures of all time

Thomas Edison was far from being the first person to come up with the idea for how to make an electric light. He was the one prepared to fail thousands of times developing the idea. [...]

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So many people get hurt because they misunderstand what success is really about

‘Success’has two almost contradictory meanings. The common one damages a lot of people. Let’s analyse it. [...]

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Life at the top

I recently heard a powerful and moving quote from best-selling thriller writer Jack Higgins (aka Harry Patterson),author of ‘The Eagle Has Landed’.

Apparently Higgins was asked if there was anything he wished he had been told when younger. He replied,“I wish someone had told me that when I got to the top there [...]

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I’m feeling suicidal. Is that dangerous?

My friend is talking about killing himself. How worried should I be? [...]

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Oil may not be running out for quite a while. Hmmm.

Is world oil production dropping? If so,how worried should we be? [...]

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OK but I thought this blog was supposed to be about living with depression

What is stuff like photos of cats and a review of the Roxy Music Revisited albums doing on a blog I thought was going to help me live with depression? [...]

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Life can feel meaningless when you’re doing nothing. So…

When you’re depressed and you feel useless and can’t get yourself to do any of the things you used to be good at and enjoy…. [...]

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Life is meaningless,pleasure is meaningless,work is meaningless. If…

How come a man with everything could write such negative ramblings? Maybe the existence of the book of Ecclesiastes can help us understood one source of depression. [...]

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Positive self-talk

Positive self-talk often work but needs to be used with care. Here are some suggestions. [...]

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Anger management and what we expect of other people

I used to have absurdly high expectations of other people. Sometimes I still do. I’m stupid. [...]

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Fragmented memories of being 17 coming up 18 and down

As a teenager I started to experience chronic depression. This is part of how it felt,and what I learned. [...]

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“I’m so pathetic I expect people to laugh at me”:that’s a good starting point

Some people are chatting

Some people are chatting. As you approach them you feel painfully self-conscious because they’re in a group and you’re on your own. You make a show of looking at your watch,and then speed up as if late for an appointment. Somehow walking faster feels better.

As you’re passing they [...]

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“You’ve shown me disrespect so we’re going to kill you.”

It turns out there are two contradictory types of ‘self esteem’[...]

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How do I feel today? I don’t know.

Is today a good day or a bad day? I guess it’s just a normal day. [...]

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