ADHD and Depression
Many people with ADHD also suffer from depression. It may be that the difference of ADHD means living a life without all the approving nods that come to others so easily. ADHD often means living a life of self-reliance (what other people call defiance).
I'm gearing up with lots of excitement for the upcoming release of my new book, Listening to Depression: How Understanding Your Pain Can Heal Your Life.
When I tell people about my book, they have a hard time believing that depression can be a gift. The book doesn't say that depression isn't painful, it says that there are treasures to be found if you listen carefully to your depression for guidance.
Make no mistake! The book will show you how to heal your depression but goes even farther than that. The book will tell you that depression will heal your life. If you listen to depression, you won't just go back to normal. The guidance in depression will transform your life to bring it into greater alignment with your deepest gifts, values, interests and needs.
I just saw the movie - Click - with Adam Sandler. This is one of the best movies I have ever seen! It illustrates perfectly the idea of how easy it is to live a life totally off track from what we really want for ourselves. The main character wastes much of his life fastforwarding from one much wanted promotion to the next. Luckily he gets a chance to do it over again because when he gets to the end, he realizes he missed everything that really mattered, and lost what was most important to him.
Because the idea of a gift in depression can be hard to believe at first glance I interviewed many people who tell stories of living through devasting crises and dark depressions and not only recovering from it but creating a life that is guided by a vision rather than passively following a life pushed and pulled by fears. On my psychjourney blog, Listening to Depression, you can hear some interviews with these people profiled in my book including the President of Psychjourney - Deborah Harper.
more later,
Dr. Lara Honos-Webb
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