{"id":1048,"date":"2008-03-24T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-24T09:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beyondblue\/2008\/03\/a-few-of-my-favorite-things.html"},"modified":"2008-03-24T09:45:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-24T09:45:00","slug":"a-few-of-my-favorite-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/2008\/03\/a-few-of-my-favorite-things.html","title":{"rendered":"A Few of My Favorite Things …"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nOne of my very favorite movies is the 1965 classic, \u201cThe Sound of Music,\u201d<\/a> because I get goose bumps when Julie Andrews sings \u201cMy Favorite Things\u201d to the children. What a powerful message for those of us living with depression. In fact, when I was in the psych ward, the nurses made us list some of our favorite things, and then tried to convince us that we would like those things again one day.
\nElisabeth Wurtzel does her rendition of \u201cMy Favorite Things\u201d when she writes this beautiful paragraph in her bestselling book, \u201cProzac Nation\u201d<\/a>:<\/p>\n

It\u2019s funny, but when I was little, before I\u2019d go to sleep my mom would do this routine with me where she\u2019d tell me to think of pretty things. I would close my eyes and she would run her fingers over my cheeks and across my brow. And we\u2019d go through the list. I think it was a way of preventing nightmares\u2014and it would always be, you know, pussycats and puppy dogs and balloons at the zoo. Sometimes she\u2019d mention yellow submarines, stars in the sky, blackbirds flying overhead, trees in Central Park, and even\u2014believe it or not\u2014that on Saturday I would get to see Daddy. Nothing that extraordinary, but when you\u2019re four years old, it\u2019s cats and dogs that make life worth living. And I kind of think it\u2019s maybe not so different now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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