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	<title>The Toolbox at LisaKiftTherapy.com &#187; Depression</title>
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		<title>A Husband Speaks: A Tale of Depression and Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 16:03:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Depression]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the summer of 2009, my wife and I were making plans for having our first child. We started dating as high school freshmen, and in our ninth year together, and after three years of marriage, we were ready for the next phase of life.
What happened instead is the stuff of nightmares. A lot happened [...]


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		<title>Emotional Overload: One Thing You can do Right Now to Soothe Yourself</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:22:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anger Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anxiety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Depression]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Intense emotions such as anger, fear and sadness can be crippling in the moment.  They can feel like they &#8220;take you over.&#8221;  In a way, they do.  This is because if you are so upset that your brain is literally in a &#8220;fight-or-flight&#8221; mode, there is likely a lot of cortisol (the stress hormone) coursing through [...]


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		<title>Steps to Identify Your Unhelpful Belief Systems</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:57:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anger Management]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you struggle with anger, depression or anxiety and have the sense that it might have roots somewhere in your past?  Trust your instincts. There&#8217;s likely something there worth taking a look at.
I work extensively with people in individual therapy to assist them in working through the past &#8211; to move on in the present. [...]


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		<title>3 Tools to Manage Depression</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 22:19:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The symptoms of depression can be really distressing. For some people, there is little ability to function, get out of bed or have the desire to do much of anything! However, if you can rally yourself enough to implement the following 3 depression management tips, you might see some improvement in how you&#8217;re feeling.
1) Talk [...]


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		<title>Depression Checklist &#8211; A Tool to Monitor Your Depression by Mike Miller, PhD</title>
		<link>http://lisakifttherapy.com/mental-health/the-mental-health-place-a-mental-health-blog/depression-checklist-a-tool-to-monitor-your-depression-by-mike-miller-phd/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Depression becomes increasingly immobilizing as it deepens.  Energy often declines and people increasingly don&#8217;t feel like doing anything.  It is imperative to fight this feeling of &#8220;Do Nothingness&#8221; as much as possible.  Make an effort to get up, bathed, dressed, and out of your home most days.  Try shifting your focus away from your miseries [...]


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		<title>Understanding Clinical Depression and Steps to Manage Depression Symptoms Right Now</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:18:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all go through times when we feel sad or really upset about something. Life can be full of exhilarating, joyful moments but also bring us periods of time when we feel utterly distraught. These lower moments can cause us great pain, bring flowing torrents of tears and even cause us to lose our appetites. [...]


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		<title>Catch Yourself Being Good by Michael Miller, PhD</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 06:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The most powerful change strategy for children&#8217;s behavior problems is the parents increasing the focus on positive behavior and reinforcing those behaviors.  A powerful strategy of improving your mood and self-esteem is increasing positive self-talk.  Human nature is such that most of us look for when we make mistakes and then be self-critical.  Much of [...]


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		<title>Nature Therapy: It&#8217;s Free and You Can do it Yourself by Ben Klempner, LMSW</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 02:06:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was seventeen years old I had a friend who was chronically depressed.  He suffered greatly on a good day and I won&#8217;t get into what bad days were like for him.  One day I showed up at his home and boldly announced to him that we were going up to the Catskill Mountain [...]


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		<title>What is Depression? by Dean Sunseri, LPC</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Defined: Depression is a debilitating state that has a negative impact on a person’s mood, and a loss of interest or pleasure in daily activities.   A depressed person will describe their mood as sad or empty, and sometimes he or she becomes irritable easily.  Some other characteristics are weight loss, difficulty sleeping or sleeping too [...]


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