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	<title>Blog of the Nerd &#187; depression</title>
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	<description>Rob Goforth, creator of Lair of the Nerd and author of the upcoming Red Bargain fantasy trilogy.</description>
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		<title>Red Bargain: Onwards?</title>
		<link>http://blog.lairofthenerd.com/2013/07/red-bargain-onwards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jul 2013 02:26:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xaphod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, over the past several months I&#8217;ve spent a lot of time thinking about what I want to do with my life.. about what I can do with my life.  To be honest, part of me would love to be able to go and get a job and just work like a normal person.  But I&#8217;m not [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Scrabbling up a cliff</title>
		<link>http://blog.lairofthenerd.com/2012/11/scrabbling-up-a-cliff/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2012 18:17:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xaphod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, I&#8217;m still here, still out of work, still trying to Make Good Art* and keep myself alive Working on writing things is becoming increasingly difficult, as my depression has caused motivation to be very hard to come by. I stare at a blank canvas and nothing seems to flow. I am trying to continue [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Pets and microchips</title>
		<link>http://blog.lairofthenerd.com/2012/11/pets-and-microchips/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2012 00:43:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xaphod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, I made another Cardboard Theatre animation.  If you like it, please like it on Youtube, go to http://facebook.com/lairofthenerd and like the link on there, and share it with your friends. I admit, I am quite new to this whole social media promotion thing and am struggling to know how to get more people interested. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>More Nerd Lair News</title>
		<link>http://blog.lairofthenerd.com/2012/05/more-nerd-lair-news/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 01:25:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xaphod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, the time came and we all gathered together and headed out while wearing our Lair of the Nerd shirts to try and get some publicity going. I&#8217;ve realised recently that I have trouble with attention; I am much more likely to hide than to allow myself to shine, in part because I fear things [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Meds.</title>
		<link>http://blog.lairofthenerd.com/2012/04/meds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 22:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xaphod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Medication is apparently a perfectly viable way to treat depression and anxiety, provided it is accompanied by appropriate therapy&#8230; It wasn&#8217;t long after this current episode of psychological issues began that I was advised that Cognitive Behavioural Therapy may be helpful to me.  Unfortunatly though it was close to four months between my first visit [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Opening My Mind</title>
		<link>http://blog.lairofthenerd.com/2012/03/opening-my-mind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 23:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xaphod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my main goals with writing a blog detailing my struggles with both writing and depression was to document my progress in both so that maybe others might gain insight from my journey.  However, I&#8217;ve been a little too apprehensive to make my thoughts and feelings public.. but then I realised it wasn&#8217;t actually [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Allowing Me To Be Me</title>
		<link>http://blog.lairofthenerd.com/2012/02/allowing-me-to-be-me/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.lairofthenerd.com/2012/02/allowing-me-to-be-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2012 01:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xaphod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Allowing myself to be depressed is one of the first real breakthroughs I feel like I have had, despite it not sounding like one, but I&#8217;ll explain. Guilt has often been one of my real issues. Guilt at not being &#8216;ok&#8217;, guilt at not being &#8216;normal&#8217;, at not being capable of work at the moment. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking about Thinking about Things</title>
		<link>http://blog.lairofthenerd.com/2012/02/thinking-about-thinking-about-things/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xaphod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is a method for treatment of mental health disorders such as depression and anxiety. I&#8217;ve been waiting for my referral to a CBT counsellor for what feels like forever, with my GP changing me from drug to drug, increasing my dosage, all the while telling me that what she thinks I really [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Delusion</title>
		<link>http://blog.lairofthenerd.com/2012/02/delusion/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.lairofthenerd.com/2012/02/delusion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xaphod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I worry sometimes whether I&#8217;m deluding myself. These are often my darkest moments, when the muse has gone quiet and I&#8217;m sitting with a notebook or an app of some sort in front of me, and the thought presents itself: “I&#8217;m not actually any good at any of this”. At these points I start to [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Guilt for Being</title>
		<link>http://blog.lairofthenerd.com/2012/01/guilt-for-being/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xaphod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Suffering from Clinical Depression is a little bit like having a narrator with you commenting on your every mood, twisting and distorting the facts until they fit with what this narrator wants them to say, making everything bad, scary, or a source of guilt. Only the narrator is yourself, which makes realising when he&#8217;s wrong [&#8230;]]]></description>
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