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Depression is for Everyone: Managing Moods is the Trick

Post author:John McElhenney
Post published:May 7, 2019
Post category:Anger Depression Health and Fitness Self-care Spirituality
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Depression is truly a soul killer. And it might be a slippery slope towards suicide if we don't get a handle on it, both personally and as a society.

Depression: Yeah, Me and My Broken Leg

Post author:John McElhenney
Post published:January 3, 2019
Post category:Anger Depression Divorce Health and Fitness Parenting Relationships Self-care Single-Dad Spirituality
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If mental illness was more like typical illness we'd have a lot more sympathy for the suffering. If it's a disease, then we need to stop pushing and grinding ourselves…

The Blurry Lines Between Divorced Parents: Entitlement & Narcissism

Post author:John McElhenney
Post published:September 10, 2018
Post category:Anger Co-Parenting Depression Divorce Health and Fitness humans of divorce Married Life Money Parenting Relationships Self-care Single-Dad
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Not a percentage of salary earned. No, she believed, still believes, that the child support is her entitlement. This is no longer a relationship it's just a business contract. I am no longer a person to her, I'm a debtor. I'm the problem. I'm the reason she's unhappy.

How My Bipolar Depression Showed Up in High School

Post author:John McElhenney
Post published:April 1, 2018
Post category:Depression Divorce Drinking Health and Fitness humans of divorce Self-care
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I have suffered from depressions since I was 15 when I had my first collapse at a prep school (Phillips Exeter Academy) in New Hampshire. I didn’t know what was happening to me.