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Managing Lifelong Mental Health as a Senior
Mental Health | Last Active: Oct 23, 2023 | Replies (499)Comment receiving replies
@johnhans I am sorry to hear of the difficulty you are having with depression and the isolating effects of health problems. Transportation is a serous problems for seniors. Is there any senior transportation in your vicinity? What about NAMI support groups? If these are not possible, you might try some "book-therapy." Do some reading by authors who specialize in depression. David Burns comes to mind as one author who writes about changing your thoughts so that your mood will change. Let's hear what some others are reading, Can you suggest some authors or books about dealing with depression, @georgette12 @jimhd @johnjames @rspaulling @safetyshield?
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If you lived in the same place I do, I'd be happy to help you with transportation. Is there a senior center where you live? I have a great list of benefits, providers and services for seniors, such as transportation, which is one of the things I expect to need help with some day. The list might be available at a senior center, Chamber of Commerce, hospital, county services, mental health or? How about a friend or relative who would read to you.
A good book I have read and given to my soldiers : 1. Night Falls Fast By: Dr Kay Redfield Jamison. 2. Living with Loss, by Dr Gloria Horsley. 3.Rule Number Two. BY. Dr Heidi Squier Kraft- she also talks about her own deep depression after coming home from Iraq as a Dr Of Psychology . 4. Suicide as Psychache. by: Dr Edwin Shneidman- the book I have ever read in 50 years on depression and suicide and how to help those-who can't help themselves. JJAMES
@johnjames Thanks so much for the book recommendations. Book therapy can be very helpful.
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I really enjoyed reading #4. Very well written by someone who has been through it.
Jim
Hi all: @johnjames gave us four different books that have been helpful to him in understanding depression. I was wondering if there are other books out there that have helped any of you, @jimhd @johnhans @lesbatts @gailb @georgette12 @rspaulling, please share with us titles and authors and let us know what was helpful to you. You are all so thoughtful and encouraging, I feel blessed to have met you through this remarkable online forum! Teresa
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NAMI is not available where my local paratransit service goes. My depression and anxiety is inherited--has run in the family for generations--but the frustrations of old age problems has increased it. My local library has a very long walkway into it so it makes it hard for me to get to it and they do not deliver specific books. I can always check e-books but the last I looked the program they used made the type too small for me to read and there was not a setting to adjust size of type. Just some of the frustrations of old age.