Depression Recovery
Having struggled with clinical depression my whole adult life, I have worked to find practical tools and coping strategies to manage the symptoms of depression and to experience good quality of life. Sharing these healing strategies with others has become my life’s work. This endeavor has resulted in the resources you see below.
Resources for Healing from Depression
Healing from Depression Website
I created this website in the year 2000 and I have been adding to it ever since. It’s purpose is to offer you practical tools and coping strategies that will help to manage the symptoms of depression and anxiety and return joy and vitality to your life.
Depression Recovery Podcast
I created this podcast in order to share the practical tools and coping strategies that I have found that have helped me to heal from depression and anxiety.
Depression Recovery Articles
This link will take you to a series of articles on healing from depression that I wrote for the website Mad in America.
Healing from Depression Newsletters
Click above to find a list of my four Healing from Depression e-tip Newsletters. The purpose of these free newsletters is to provide you with both healing information and inspiration that will allow you to manage your symptoms of anxiety and depression.
Books in Print
Healing from Depression
In Healing from Depression, Douglas Bloch shares a 12 week body, mind and spirit recovery program that he developed from his own struggle to stay alive amidst overwhelming despair and out-of-control anxiety attacks, and explains how a number of holistic approaches ultimately led to his recovery.
Words That Heal the Blues
This book contains a 30-day program that combines the power of daily affirmations combined with specific depression coping strategies to alleviate the painful symptoms of depression, anxiety, and other mood disorders. Each day includes a self-care lesson, a series of affirmations, and an activity to help transform the lesson into positive action.
Words That Heal
This book contains 52 specific depression recovery tools and coping strategies that have been adopted from Douglas’s book Healing From Depression.
When Going Through Hell Don't Stop
In this powerful memoir Douglas Bloch shares his struggle to stay alive amidst overwhelming despair and out-of-control anxiety attacks, and explains how a number of holistic approaches ultimately led to his recovery.
Contact ME
If you would like to learn more about my work or have any questions, feel free to contact me at douglasbloch (at) gmail.com.
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