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Unhelpful thinking styles

  • by Mike McArthur
  • Posted on January 18, 2018October 17, 2018
  • Mental Health

The information here is consolidated from half a dozen documents from various sources that I have found over the years as I’ve learned about depression and how to battle it. People experiencing depression or anxiety […]

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Serotonin and depression

  • by Mike McArthur
  • Posted on January 10, 2018October 9, 2018
  • Mental Health

This post is an attempt at summarising and explaining a paper called 5-HT and depression: is the glass half full? Authored by Trevor Sharp and Philip J. Cowen which was published in Current Opinion in […]

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I don’t want to know the future

  • by Mike McArthur
  • Posted on January 4, 2018October 9, 2018
  • Mental Health

The notebook I’m currently using for writing has some notes in the back of it written in mid-2008 when I was trying to find a way forward from being in a state of burnout. Looking […]

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What it means to be fully human

  • by Mike McArthur
  • Posted on May 8, 2015October 8, 2018
  • Mental Health
  • Link

Profound words from an advocate for the mentally disabled To be fully human is really to discover who I am. And who am I? I’m a member of the huge human family, where we’re all […]

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Bringing a daughter back from the brink with poems

  • by Mike McArthur
  • Posted on April 30, 2015October 8, 2018
  • Mental Health
  • Link

A beautiful article about how a Mom put poems in her daughter’s shoes when she was going through a period of despair: Before she went to school in the morning, I wanted her to read […]

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Practical biblical advice for despair

  • by Mike McArthur
  • Posted on April 26, 2015October 8, 2018
  • Mental Health

When we are hungry, angry, lonely, tired or any combination of the four, our actions, reactions, and choices can be coloured by how we are feeling.

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Screen free time

  • by Mike McArthur
  • Posted on March 1, 2015October 8, 2018
  • Christianity

A second goal I am making in my attempt to be a better version of myself is to avoid electronic devices for an hour before bed. There is evidence that the light from certain types […]

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Baby steps

  • by Mike McArthur
  • Posted on February 27, 2015October 8, 2018
  • Christianity

Last year my Bible reading went out the window. This was an effect of depression, not the cause, but it did not help. It took huge effort to read even a single chapter, an effort I often could not summon in the midst of depression.

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Rock bottom

  • by Mike McArthur
  • Posted on February 25, 2015October 8, 2018
  • Mental Health

What I am aiming for is to be a better person. Not perfect, not even ‘the best’, just better than I am now.

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