{"id":712,"date":"2010-09-02T14:49:30","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T14:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=712"},"modified":"2010-09-02T14:49:30","modified_gmt":"2010-09-02T14:49:30","slug":"guidance-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=712","title":{"rendered":"Guidance"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Written in December 2005)
\nDear Guides and Guardian Spirits, I\u2019m really feeling as bad as I\u2019ve ever felt about myself and my life.\u00a0 Please help me.
\n Dear Jenny, this is clinical depression.\u00a0 It\u2019s not who you really are.\u00a0 Hang on. You\u2019ve raised the medication and it will work, it just takes time.\u00a0 The person you really are is the one you were last fall when you felt good about yourself and your life, you had enthusiasm for daily living and you enjoyed it.\u00a0 This is possible again.\u00a0 Remember how your friend Rose Marie flew from New York and rented a car to come do healing work with you \u2014 she thought you were worth that much effort.\u00a0 And your friend Kathi who came and sat with you in the hospital because she needed your presence in her life.\u00a0 There are many people who love you, you just can\u2019t take it in right now.\u00a0 Don\u2019t make yourself wrong for this.\u00a0 Just keep on going: doing the daily chores, getting out with the dog on snowshoes, dancing when you can.\u00a0 You WILL come out of this.<\/em><\/p>\n

Observation without evaluation.\u00a0 Here\u2019s this woman, born with a highly sensitive nervous system and traumatized in infancy.\u00a0 There is also, probably, an inherited predisposition to depression.\u00a0 The combination of high sensitivity and trauma means that her internal state is variable, vulnerable, volatile.\u00a0 She is easily thrown off balance by small happenings, she can be triggered into extreme anxiety or profound depression by relatively normal events (people getting upset, something breaking, people leaving, dog being sick). She is not robust and stable but knocked about by every little wind that blows.\u00a0 Every day is a struggle to just keep going, managing food and other chores, keeping up her commitments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Written in December 2005) Dear Guides and Guardian Spirits, I\u2019m really feeling as bad as I\u2019ve ever felt about myself and my life.\u00a0 Please help me. Dear Jenny, this is clinical depression.\u00a0 It\u2019s not who you really are.\u00a0 Hang on. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guidance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}