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    Depression Present Tense
    Depression Present Tense
    Depression Present Tense
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    Depression Present Tense

    By John Folk-Williams

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    Through first-person vignettes, experience the sounds, sights and feelings of depression as one man has lived it. The moments of crisis, insight and recovery can be overwhelming, and life itself is always at stake.This chronic illness can be many things, and these stories cover the range from emptiness, anguish and panic to anger, obsessiveness and suicidal urges. There is no simple pattern here but a present that is tense, changing, recurring, empty, full, ugly and beautiful. And there are insights that have helped retrieve the grace and love in small moments and long days. Those moments gradually become more frequent, link to one another and begin to turn the whole tenor of life to something beautiful and simple once again. Recovery becomes possible by regaining belief in oneself and opening the chance for a life of hope and achievement.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJohn Folk-Williams
    Release dateJul 15, 2023
    ISBN9798223059165
    Depression Present Tense
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    John Folk-Williams

    John Folk-Williams, who has lived with depression since childhood, began writing journals as a form of therapy, then started his award-winning blog, Storied Mind, in 2007. Over the past years, thousands of readers have responded to his posts with their own stories since they knew they had a place to talk to each other where they would be understood. Storied Mind has won awards from PsychCentral, Healthline and other websites listing top blogs about depression. John has also written for HealthCentral and MentalHelp.net and has adapted the voluminous material of Storied Mind into the ebooks, Surviving Depression Together and A Mind for Life. A third book, Depression Present Tense, will soon be available.He has lived with his family and many generations of dogs and cats in New York, New Mexico, California and Minnesota, where he now indulges his love of science fiction through the blog SciFi Mind.

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