Finding the Blessings in Life's Challenges

In this podcast, author and mental health educator Douglas Bloch talks about how to cope when a person experiences the loss of a significant other--spouse, domestic partner, or someone with whom you have an intimate relationship.

In this podcast, author and depression counselor Douglas Bloch shares the important role that sleep plays in treating depression and preventing its occurrence.

In this podcast, author and depression counselor Douglas Bloch talks about how to avoid future episodes of anxiety and depression through practicing relapse prevention. Douglas identifies the three stages of relapse and how to intervene at each stage to nip the symptoms in the bud.

In this podcast, author and depression counselor Douglas Bloch talks about how he used a mindfulness medication technique to manage the unbearable pain of clinical depression and anxiety.

In this podcast, author and depression counselor talks about how to minimize the side effects of antidepressants and how to reduce the stigma of taking medication.

In this podcast, author and depression counselor Douglas Bloch explains how negative beliefs developed in childhood can lead to symptoms of depression in later life. He then shows how you can replace these beliefs with accurate and empowering beliefs about yourself, others and the world.

In this this podcast, author and counselor Douglas Bloch discusses the pros and cons of using antidepressants to treat depression. He tells what you can expect from medication how long you should remain on the drugs.

In this podcast, author and mental health educator Douglas Bloch presents the 16th and final episode of his new audiobook, When Going Through Hell...Don't Stop! A Survivor's Guide to Overcoming Anxiety and Clinical Depression, adapted from the print book of the same name.

This episode is called Epilogue: Living in Recovery. In the video, Douglas recalls that after his miraculous recovery, his challenged changed from getting out of hell to STAYING out. To accomplish this, he took the survival tools he used to stay alive during his depressive episode and used them as coping strategies to maintain his recovery. In addition, he decided to take the lessons he learned in his fight against depression and share them with others who were undergoing similar challenges.