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Depression and Back
These pages came about because of my involvement in the alt.support.depression newsgroup, known to those who need it as ASD. I no longer have the time or energy to devote to maintaining a group home page, but these pages will remain for those who need them.
When I've been down, or when I needed to reach out, ASD was there. It is a gathering place, a refuge where people meet both to escape from and to face the illness called depression. It's a place where, when you hurt, new and understanding friends will take you in. It's a place where old friends share their lives. What brings us together is pain. It doesn't matter why you hurt, or how long it's been hurting, or how old you are, or anything else. What matters is that you're in need.
While I have deleted some material that I can no longer keep up to date, there are useful things here to get you started and keep you going in alt.support.depression.
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Some depression-related pages on the net.
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| User Guide to ASD |
These notes are intended to help users of asd get more out of the newsgroup. It tries to be descriptive, partly because it can't be prescriptive -- there are no rules, and these notes don't try to make any. (Replaces the Notes for Newbies).
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| An Open Letter to Newbies and Lurkers |
Welcome all of you to asd... I hope you like it here, I've found it to be warm and supportive place. I hope you do too. |
| ASD Acronyms |
Acronyms and abbreviations seen in asd (or of general use on the Net).
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| ASD Slang |
This is a list of some of the words used on asd which do not have their normal everyday meanings when used here.
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| When You See ASD Changing |
Things have been written on this topic that have bothered me, and there's something I'd like to say, particularly about the ratio of social threads to support. |
| About Trolls and Flamers |
As someone in another newsgroup said, it's troll season. What can you do? (See also my Flame Retardant.) |
| How Do You Deal with Depression? |
Regular therapy, and when needed, anti-depressants, being very open about it with LOTS of people, and using little tricks.
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| Dealing With a Crash |
You've got your awareness of what you go through going down in high gear. Now: What do you do when you get down?
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| Coping with Depression at Work |
A few months ago, the situation at work changed drastically, once again. The company reorganized and I was moved, without consultation, from one manager to another. |
| Emotional and Verbal Abuse |
I believe that each and every one of us here understands what abuse is, and
does not use that word lightly. Because most of us have been abused, at one time or another
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| Finding a Therapist |
Perhaps I can offer some suggestions from "the other side of the fence", so to speak, from my experiences as a volunteer counsellor with a local crisis agency. |
| Not the ASD FAQ |
Grizelda Fugglethwaite normally posts this, but she's got a nasty chest-cold which even industrial strength vapour-rub isn't shifting, so I'm doing it, just this once.
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| Depression Self-Check |
Keep tabs on your depression.
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| Howl |
why is it that the middle of the night hurts more than any other time? |
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
--C. G. Jung
Copyright © 1996, 1997, 2001 by Diane Wilson. All rights reserved.