MENTAL IMAGERY PROCESS FOR OVERCOMING RESENTMENT Sit in a comfortable chair, feet flat on the floor , eyes closed. Create a clear picture in your mind of the person toward who you feel resentment. 3. Picture good things happening to that person. See him or her receive love attention or money, whatever you believe that … Continue reading Mental Imagery Process fro Overcoming Resentment
One of the realities of one’s life -especially if one has been depressed for a time -is that language creates reality. This is a tenet of our recovery program. How often as children have some of us have been told that “we’ll never be like our brother or our sister” all the time preparing us … Continue reading Waiting for the Drugs to Kick In!
• Attraction to individual members of the group. • Feelings of getting help by helping. • Risk-taking by group members. • Demystification of the members experience and consensual validation • Strong leadership with a willingness to share on the part of the leader, along with rotation of leadership roles • A focus on goals and … Continue reading Characteristics of a well functioning group
“If we have ‘worked’ the Twelve Steps on a daily basis, I do believe we now realize the value of surrender and the power that releases in us. Just by making a decision in Step Three “to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understand God” • is … Continue reading Working the Steps
The Twelve Steps are the essential beliefs and at the very core of Depressed Anonymous. The DA recovery program, modeled on Alcoholics Anonymous which originally developed to help men and women deal with their addiction to alcohol, one day at a time. The Twelve Steps have been found to be a potent means of recovery … Continue reading Twelve Steps are the essential beliefs and at the very core of Depressed Anonymous
“As many as 60 million adults used the World Wide Web last year to find information about health care, according to a poll by Louis Harris & Assoc. “Health care is an enormous reason why people go online,” said Humphrey Taylor, Chairman of the polling company, which estimates that 90 million (or 44% of the … Continue reading Is the Internet a reliable Source?
WASHINGTON, March 2, 2006 I U.S. Newswire The following was released by the National Institute for Healthcare Research: A recent study in the American Journal of Psychiatry identified this other often overlooked resource patients draw upon to help fend off depression – a deep religious commitment – that significantly reduced recovery times. This study focused … Continue reading Spirtuality Spurs Recovery From Depression
AFFIRMATION I will affirm myself by getting in touch with my feelings and expressing them. “To know how to behave you have to rely on other people’s opinions, and so you live under the tyrannies of ‘they.’ What will ‘they’ think? is the thing that accompanies every action and determines every decision.” DECISION I am … Continue reading Higher Thoughts
How many times has someone advised us to “Watch your step!” This is always good advice when there is a potential problem in the area where you are walking. This advice is always appreciated and could save us from a bad tumble. I discovered this fact many years ago, in fact in 1982 I had … Continue reading Watch Your Step
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