Depression: How Acceptance Can Help

I suffered from depression in my 20’s after various traumas in the military. For the past 35 years, I have learned to manage depression when it returns. This post discusses my fundamental approach.

Having a sense of understanding enriches our experiences in life. Failure to understand our experiences is frustrating. Afterward we appraise those frustrating events again to make sense in our own terms. That’s a good thing. But a bad thing can happen when we get stuck in a not-making-sense-at-all...