Depression Checklist: How Do I Know If I Am Depressed?

Depression Checklist: How Do I Know If I Am Depressed?

How Do You Know If You’re Depressed? How do you know if you’re depressed? Depression is one of those illnesses that can be tricky to self-diagnose. For instance, if you’re feeling sad, are you just having a bad day – or week? Is it just a rough time in your life? Or is it depression? If you have a difficult time concentrating, are you suffering from depression or are you just distracted? If you don’t feel like going out with your friends...

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How do you know what your ideal job is?

How do you know what your ideal job is?

What would an ideal job be like? And more importantly what is it? There is a lot of hype out there about finding the ideal job. The current view is you simply must have a driving passion that consumes you. If you don’t have this overarching passion you will be a loser. There are numerous career tests to tell you what that ideal job is and it almost guarantees you will be successful. Do what you love and the money will follow. I don’t believe...

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Finding Hope when you feel despair

Finding Hope when you feel despair

People are experiencing a lot of stress, anxiety and depression. Some events are reasonably characterized as “awful” and it doesn’t help to say it’s not so bad when the answer back is a resounding YES! What you need is a place to share it (misery Loves Company).  To begin to solve a problem you need validation either from yourself or someone else. Most of us are not built to process extreme distress, shock, or suffering...

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A Fast Checklist for Anxiety

A Fast Checklist for Anxiety

Here is a list of the 4 main forms of anxiety that too many people suffer with. It is important to recognize anxiety symptoms and get help. Take the anxiety test if you suffer from any of the following: Social Anxiety Disorder SAD, Generalized Anxiety and Panic Attacks Social Anxiety Disorder SAD • Fear that you are being judged • Worrying about embarrassing or humiliating yourself in front of others • Concern that you’ll offend someone •...

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You struggle to make your own decisions.

You struggle to make your own decisions.

The internet has not taught us how to research it has taught us to remain in a state of searching. Before we go to a restaurant we Google, yelp etc. We are relying on opinions of strangers who may or may not be truly strange in their opinions. And when we amass all this information which can take a significant amount of time, we sit in a whirling dervish of limitless choices! It can be anxiety provoking. And for some people this is how they...

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You no longer (or never did) really know what you want

You no longer (or never did) really know what you want

We are going to go over. WHY this has happened, WHY NOW, and WHAT MIGHT HELP.   You have relentlessly pushed and pushed and pushed yourself for 12 or 13 years to gain a prestigious career and here you are….realizing there’s no end in sight. In today’s world it feels like you have to push and push and push yourself for 6 or 10 more years before you can relax.  You feel burned out and worn out and can’t get the motivation up to...

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