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Depression Strikes Again
Depression is a difficult thing to get rid of when you are prone to all varieties of it. Here is the tale of my latest run-in with the beast.
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Turning A Corner
I feel like I have turned a corner with my gambling problem. It's early days yet but I actually think I am no longer addicted.
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Believe Your Bank Balance
I've been fighting the urge to gamble tonight and it has led to me coming up with a new slogan that I hope will help me beat my gambling addiction.
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Pessimism, Paranoia And Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
A trojan horse on my computer triggers pessimism and paranoia. These activate my PTSD and my reactions cause more harm than the trojan itself!
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Addiction
Some information about addiction and how I handled my lapse back into my gambling addiction. The difference between a lapse and a relapse and the use of positive self-talk to prevent relapse.
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Trust, Self-Talk and Support.
The situation at work turns out to be due to a mistake I have made. This entry describes how I trusted my co-worker to be supportive of me and used positive self-talk to work through it.
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Paranoia, Panic, Self-Talk and Persistence.
Another incident at work triggers paranoia, pessimism and panic in me. This is the story of how I used positive self-talk to cope with my feelings and reactions to the situation.
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Pessimism, Anxiety and Self-Talk
The details of how I used several life-skills to cope with an incident at work. The incident caused anxiety, fired up my habitual pessimism and created panic in me.
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You can’t believe everything you tell yourself.
The tale of my arrogant attempt to save the soul of a priest and how God taught me to question the excuses I give myself for my own behaviour.
