Depression and the Inner Critic — Articles and Reflections

Depression that gets through the day. Emotional numbness. Low self-esteem. The voice in your head that will not stop. Articles for when the floor feels far away.

Depression Help — When Getting Through the Day Is Already the Work

Depression has a particular quality that separates it from ordinary sadness: it makes everything harder, including the things that might help. Getting out of be

When You Feel Nothing — And That Feels Like Its Own Kind of Pain

You might have expected to feel sad. You were ready for that. But what you have instead is something harder to name — a kind of flatness. A grey where colour us

Low Self-Esteem — When the Voice in Your Head Is Your Harshest Critic

Most people have a working relationship with self-criticism. It's part of having a conscience, noticing when you've got something wrong, wanting to improve. The

The Voice That Never Stops Criticising You — And What It Actually Needs

You know the voice. It's the one that arrives the moment after you make a mistake — or sometimes before you've even finished making it. It says you should have