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Post by disorganizeddragon on Mar 14, 2013 23:20:08 GMT -5
"Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future." ~ Sivananda
"If only it were always that simple." ~ me
messymimi Mimi, it's never been that easy for me either. I come from the "Beat-Yourself-Up-Until-You-Look-Like-You've-Been-Hit-By-A-Bus" school of emotional penance. (Yeah, not very healthy...)
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Mar 15, 2013 0:07:58 GMT -5
"It's official: Music lifts depression. Studies have shown that music has a marked effect on mood and self-esteem. Music is a direct route to the emotional realm."--Jonathan G. Zuess, "Wisdom of Depression"
"Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment."--Grenville Kleiser
"The depressed person is constantly chewing on himself. He needs to find something else to chew on. The form of diversion is not important, but the act of diversion is."--Penelope Russianoff, When Am I Going to Be Happy?
"A strong woman understands the importance of creating space for personal well-being, spiritual nourishment, and regeneration in order to maintain her authenticity, especially when the universe whacks her with its two-by-four and hands her days when it takes a great deal of courage just to show up."--Laura Folse (*Although the above quote is gender-specific, I think it can apply to everyone. )
"Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression."--Dodie Smith
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Post by ClutterBlind on Mar 15, 2013 16:39:13 GMT -5
Insert "those pieces of trash" for "those running shoes" below:
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Post by sparkle on Mar 15, 2013 21:17:29 GMT -5
Excellent, clutterblind!
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Mar 15, 2013 23:07:56 GMT -5
"It’s hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head."--Sally Kempton
"In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression...I loved it because I thought it was all I had. I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such scant offerings to give the world, that the one thing that justified my existence at all was my agony."--Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation
"People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them."--George Bernard Shaw
“Things will change: you won't feel this way forever. And anyway, sometimes the hardest lessons to learn are the ones your soul needs most.”--Kelly Cutrone
“You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your way in the first place.”--Sarah Dessen
"Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was."--Richard L. Evans
I agree with Sparkle--that's excellent, Clutterblind!
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Mar 16, 2013 17:35:08 GMT -5
"Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer."--Dorothy Rowe
“We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.”--Randy Pausch
“You’re never a loser until you quit trying.” --Mike Ditka
“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.”--Maya Angelou
More Food for Thought:
"Where’s the big national foundation leading the battle against depression? Where is the Jerry Lewis Telethon and the Annual Run for Depression? Little black ribbons for everyone to wear? The obvious answer is the stigma associated with the disease. Too much of the public still views depression as a weakness or character flaw, and thinks we should pull ourselves up by our bootstraps. And all the hype about new antidepressant medications has only made things worse by suggesting that recovery is simply a matter of taking a pill. Too many people with depression take the same attitude; we are ashamed of and embarrassed by having depression. This is the cruelest part of the disease: we blame ourselves for being weak or lacking character instead of accepting that we have an illness, instead of realizing that our self-blame is a symptom of the disease. And feeling that way, we don’t step forward and challenge unthinking people who reinforce those negative stereotypes. So we stay hidden away, feeling miserable and blaming ourselves for our own misery."--Richard O’Connor, Ph.D., Undoing Depression
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Mar 17, 2013 22:49:33 GMT -5
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."--Dale Carnegie
"The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you."--Will Rogers
"Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength."--Unknown
“The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it's been broken into a million pieces.”--Robert James Waller, The Bridges of Madison County
"In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer."--Albert Camus
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Post by messymimi on Mar 18, 2013 10:41:58 GMT -5
"Depression can seem worse than terminal cancer, because most cancer patients feel loved and they have hope and self-esteem." ~ David D. Burns
messymimi
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Mar 19, 2013 0:17:39 GMT -5
"When I am anxious it is because I am living in the future. When I am depressed it is because I am living in the past."--Unknown
"We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it."--John Newton
“To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.”--Alan Cohen
”Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?"--Mary Manin Morrissey
“Start living right here, in each present moment. When we stop dwelling on the past or worrying about the future, we're open to rich sources of information we've been missing out on--information that can keep us out of the downward spiral and poised for a richer life."--Mark Williams, The Mindful Way through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness
Mimi, I like the quote, but isn't it sad that it's actually true?
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Mar 19, 2013 18:25:05 GMT -5
“...When we make choices informed by a depressive state of mind, they're more than likely to keep us stuck in our unhappiness.”--Mark Williams, The Mindful Way through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness
“At least three times every day take a moment and ask yourself: What is really important? Have the wisdom and the courage to build your life around your answer.”--Lee Jampolsky
“When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.”--Zig Ziglar
"If the future road loom ominous or unpromising, and the road back uninviting, then we need to gather our resolve and, carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction."--Maya Angelou
"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one."--Elbert Hubbard
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Post by ClutterBlind on Mar 20, 2013 13:37:03 GMT -5
On decluttering & cleaning:
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Mar 21, 2013 7:15:51 GMT -5
"Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever."--Lance Armstrong
"Worry, doubt, fear and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we die."--Attributed to Douglas MacArthur
"The simple solution for disappointment and depression: Get up and get moving. Physically move. Do. Act. Get going."--Peter McWilliams
“On some dimension or other, every event in life can be causing only one of two things: either it is good for you, or it is bringing up what you need to look at in order to create good for you."--Deepak Chopra, The Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life
"A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn."--Unknown Clutterblind, I'm certainly hoping it's worth it 'cause it sure has not been easy...
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Mar 22, 2013 0:46:06 GMT -5
“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.”--Napoleon Hill
"In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all, and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You cannot now believe that you will ever feel better. But this is not true. You are sure to be happy again. Knowing this, truly believing it, will make you less miserable now. I have had enough experience to make this statement."--Abraham Lincoln
“Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself to become a new person.”--Gerard Way
"I say, follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be."--Joseph Campbell
“I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.”--Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
More Food for Thought:
"Depression is not a disease, the end point of a pathological process. It is a sign that our lives are out of balance, that we’re stuck. It’s a wake-up call and the start of a journey that can help us become whole and happy, a journey that can change and transform our lives. Healing depression and overcoming unhappiness mean dealing more effectively with stress; recovering physical and psychological balance; reclaiming parts of ourselves that we’ve ignored or suppressed: and appreciating the wholeness that has somehow slipped away from us, or that we have never really known."--James Gordon, M.D., Unstuck
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Mar 23, 2013 10:51:30 GMT -5
"You and I are not what we eat; we are what we think."--Walter Anderson
"It doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a darkened room and turn on the light, it doesn't matter if the room has been dark for a day, a week, or ten thousand years--we turn on the light and it is illuminated. Once we control our capacity for love and happiness, the light has been turned on."--Sharon Salzberg
"Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent of how I react to it."--John Maxwell
"What you thought before has led to every choice you have made, and this adds up to you at this moment. If you want to change who you are physically, mentally, and spiritually, you will have to change what you think."--Dr. Patrick Gentempo
"If you think you can or you think you can't either way you are right."--Henry Ford
More Food for Thought:
"One of the features of depression is pessimistic thinking. The negative thinking is actually the depression speaking. It’s what depression sounds like. Depression in fact manifests in negative thinking before it creates negative affect. Most depressed people are not aware that the despair and hopelessness they feel are flowing from their negative thoughts. Thoughts are mistakenly seen as privileged, occupying a rarefied territory, immune to being affected by mood and feelings, and therefore representing some immutable truth."--Hara Estroff Marano
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Post by Freedom on Mar 23, 2013 13:08:39 GMT -5
Googled and found that the emerald green ribbon stands for depression. Here's one:
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