Therese Borchard
The One You Feed
Eric Zimmer
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2014
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Therese Borchard is the author of Beyond Blue and The Pocket Therapist. She blogs for Everyday Health and is an Associate Editor and a regular contributor to Psych Central. She writes about her own struggles with depression.
In This Interview Therese and I Discuss...
The One You Feed parable.
Battling treatment resistant depression.
Turning struggle into service.
Her long battles with depression.
Treating depression holistically.
Combining traditional medicine with alternative medicine.
How positive thinking is of no use during extreme depression.
How there are no easy answers to depression.
Not having important conversations when we are hungry, angry, lonely and tired.
How it is possible to be depressed and grateful at the same time.
How diet is important but is not enough to solve depression.
How there is rarely a simple fix for depression.
How tiring faking that we are happy can be.
The importance of connecting with others who share the same challenges.
Why there are not more depression support groups?
The difference between mental health and 12 step culture.
Learning to accept our limitations.
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| 0:00.0 | It's funny because I'm in my husband and I told him it was going to be five years before we slept together and it was like the second night. |
| 0:07.0 | Welcome to the one you feed. |
| 0:17.0 | Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have, |
| 0:22.0 | quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true. |
| 0:27.0 | And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. |
| 0:31.0 | We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear. |
| 0:36.0 | We see what we don't have instead of what we do. |
| 0:39.0 | We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. |
| 0:42.0 | But it's not just about thinking. |
| 0:44.0 | Our actions matter. |
| 0:46.0 | It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living. |
| 0:50.0 | This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction. |
| 0:55.0 | How they feed their good wolf. |
| 1:10.0 | Hi everybody, it's me Katie Kurek. |
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| 1:16.0 | It has everything you need to know to start your day. |
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| 1:35.0 | And I'll see you in the morning just like old times. |
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