Thursday 5 October 2017

How to Design a Self-Care Prescription for Depression

a blog post by Therese J. Borchard for World of Psychology

Myself Time Concept

As a clinical psychologist, Mary Pipher, PhD, designed “healing packages” for her patients: activities, resources, and comforts to help them recover from trauma. Then, after Dr. Pipher’s book Reviving Ophelia became a runaway best-seller, she herself suffered from an episode of major depression and designed a healing package of her own.

“The essence of my personal healing package,” she describes in her book Seeking Peace, “was to keep my life as simple and quiet as possible and to allow myself sensual and small pleasures.” She created a mini-retreat center in her home and modified the ancient ways of calming troubled nerves to fit her lifestyle.

Continue reading you don't have to do it all, or even take up any of the suggestions, but do have a read and see what you think.


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