{"id":2068,"date":"2010-12-14T10:25:01","date_gmt":"2010-12-14T10:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beyondblue\/2010\/12\/sharewik-depression-before-the.html"},"modified":"2010-12-14T10:25:01","modified_gmt":"2010-12-14T10:25:01","slug":"sharewik-depression-before-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/2010\/12\/sharewik-depression-before-the.html","title":{"rendered":"ShareWIK: Depression Before the Holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<form mt:asset-id=\"9642\" class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"holiday eating.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/imgs\/holiday%20eating.jpeg\" width=\"220\" height=\"165\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/form>\n<p><i>I thought I&#8217;d republish post from last year since Diana has it featured on her website, www.sharewik.com for the holidays.<\/i><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A few weeks ago, a woman I knew only on Facebook, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sharewik.com\/\">Diana Keough<\/a>, arrived at my door with her savvy business and production partner, Matt Clement, to do an interview of me about depression around the holidays. I had no idea what I was getting myself into, but I felt guilty for exercising some of my boundaries skills by saying no to flying to Atlanta. (So they came to me!).<\/p>\n<div><\/p>\n<p>No more than 15 minutes after they arrived with their heavy luggage did my living room transform into a professional production set: fancy lights, backdrop, an expensive (big) camera, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>We talked for like four hours (two hours spent on poor Eric: &#8220;What&#8217;s it like living with chick who has her period, or acts like she does, all the time?&#8221;), and then they took off.<\/p>\n<p>The result is an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sharewik.com\/videos\/1761874\">incredibly polished video <\/a>(much more so than my modest productions on youtube!) that you can view by going to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sharewik.com\/videos\/1761874\">ShareWIK.com, or by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><embed src=\"http:\/\/grou.ps\/includes\/embed\/player.swf\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" flashvars=\"file=http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/silo.grou.ps\/wysiwyg_files\/Videos\/sharewik\/20091211193737-bsuluxjlglgrplnkl.flv&amp;image=http:\/\/grou.ps\/wysiwyg_files\/Videos\/sharewik\/20091211193737-bsuluxjlglgrplnkl-big.jpg&amp;link=http:\/\/www.sharewik.com\/videos\/808795&amp;backcolor=000000&amp;frontcolor=cccccc&amp;lightcolor=66cc00&amp;screencolor=000000&amp;logo=http%3A%2F%2Fgrou.ps%2Fincludes%2FphpThumb%2FphpThumb.php%3Fsrc%3D%2Fwysiwyg_files%2FGroupLogos%2Fsharewik%2F80.png%26w%3D30%26h%3D30&amp;skin=http:\/\/grou.ps\/includes\/embed\/stylish.swf&amp;autostart=false\"><\/p>\n<p>Diana&#8217;s website is a fascinating project. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sharewik.com\/\">ShareWIK<\/a> stands for &#8220;share what I know.&#8221; She is a survivor on so many levels, and is passionate about creating a forum in which people can help each other by sharing their truths, the precious pearls of wisdom learned after illnesses, tragedies, frustrations, and victories. <\/p>\n<p>I sincerely applaud her dream with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sharewik.com\/\">ShareWIK<\/a>, as I recognize her passion coming from the same energy with which I launched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/beyondblue\">Beyond Blue.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>May you succeed in your mission, Diana! We&#8217;re rooting for you!&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sharewik.com\/videos\/1761874\">Again, here&#8217;s the video.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tips for holiday depression and holiday stress management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-depression"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>ShareWIK: Depression Before the Holidays - Beyond Blue<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/2010\/12\/sharewik-depression-before-the.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ShareWIK: Depression Before the Holidays - 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