Today is a very exciting day for me because I have a guest post at Urban Monk! I would LOVE for you to follow me over there so you can read a story I haven’t shared here, on Quest for Balance. It’s called Love and Compassion Can Defeat Suffering and Depression. Don’t be shy; it’s really easy… just CLICK HERE TO GO TO URBAN MONK. I’ll be responding to comments over there.

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“It seemed like this was one big Prozac nation, one big mess of malaise. Perhaps the next time half a million people gather for a protest march on the White House green it will not be for abortion rights or gay liberation, but because we’re all so bummed out.” –Elizabeth Wurtzel

(Photo by Flynn Wynn) These days everyone throws around the word depression like we’re talking about the common cold. We all know someone (or are someone) on antidepressants; that’s the cure for everything now. The doctors just lump all of our issues together into one common enemy: depression, with one common cure… which never seems to quite do the trick.

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I’m not always happy… not even close. Like most, I have a darker side.

I recently wrote a post called Depression: The Long Dark Road, in which I shared with you that I used to suffer from depression. In reality, I will always suffer from depression, but now I have learned to live with it, to work around it, to be happy in spite of it, and not to give in to it.

David Cain, from Raptitude, recently wrote a brilliant article about How To Keep Bad Moods From Taking You Over, in which he says, “Remind yourself that your perspective is currently limited, and that your faculties of wisdom are currently impaired or dormant.”

This is something I had to learn the hard way.

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