{"id":7253,"date":"2013-06-05T16:57:05","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T20:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beyondblue\/?p=7253"},"modified":"2013-06-05T16:57:05","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T20:57:05","slug":"7-ways-to-de-funk-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/2013\/06\/7-ways-to-de-funk-yourself.html","title":{"rendered":"7 Ways to De-funk Yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beyondblue\/files\/2013\/06\/Defunk.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7254\" alt=\"Defunk\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/71\/2013\/06\/Defunk-300x225.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>The definition of FUNK: \u201cto shrink from in fright or dread.\u201d Oh yeah, and \u201ca state of severe depression.\u201d I like to think of it as the Diet Coke of depression \u2026 some of the same discomfort, symptoms, yuck, but also not the intense wrestling belonging to our friend, depression. When you\u2019re in one, all you know if that you want the hell out. You want things to change \u2026 but not sure which ones. Since I am in this place much more often than I want to be, I have come up with my own tools with which I try to dig myself out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/Wellness\/Galleries\/7-Ways-Defunk-Yourself.aspx\">Click here to continue reading the full article from Therese Borchard<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The definition of FUNK: \u201cto shrink from in fright or dread.\u201d Oh yeah, and \u201ca state of severe depression.\u201d I like to think of it as the Diet Coke of depression \u2026 some of the same discomfort, symptoms, yuck, but also not the intense wrestling belonging to our friend, depression. When you\u2019re in one, all&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":462,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration-and-prayer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>7 Ways to De-funk Yourself - 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\/2013\/06\/7-ways-to-de-funk-yourself.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"7 Ways to De-funk Yourself - Beyond Blue\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The definition of FUNK: \u201cto shrink from in fright or dread.\u201d Oh yeah, and \u201ca state of severe depression.\u201d I like to think of it as the Diet Coke of depression \u2026 some of the same discomfort, symptoms, yuck, but also not the intense wrestling belonging to our friend, depression. When you\u2019re in one, all&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/2013\/06\/7-ways-to-de-funk-yourself.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Beyond Blue\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-06-05T20:57:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beyondblue\/files\/2013\/06\/Defunk-300x225.png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Beliefnet Staff\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"7 Ways to De-funk Yourself - Beyond Blue","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/2013\/06\/7-ways-to-de-funk-yourself.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"7 Ways to De-funk Yourself - Beyond Blue","og_description":"The definition of FUNK: \u201cto shrink from in fright or dread.\u201d Oh yeah, and \u201ca state of severe depression.\u201d I like to think of it as the Diet Coke of depression \u2026 some of the same discomfort, symptoms, yuck, but also not the intense wrestling belonging to our friend, depression. When you\u2019re in one, all&hellip;","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/2013\/06\/7-ways-to-de-funk-yourself.html","og_site_name":"Beyond Blue","article_published_time":"2013-06-05T20:57:05+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beyondblue\/files\/2013\/06\/Defunk-300x225.png"}],"author":"Beliefnet Staff","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/2013\/06\/7-ways-to-de-funk-yourself.html","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/2013\/06\/7-ways-to-de-funk-yourself.html","name":"7 Ways to De-funk Yourself - Beyond Blue","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/2013\/06\/7-ways-to-de-funk-yourself.html#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/2013\/06\/7-ways-to-de-funk-yourself.html#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beyondblue\/files\/2013\/06\/Defunk-300x225.png","datePublished":"2013-06-05T20:57:05+00:00","dateModified":"2013-06-05T20:57:05+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/#\/schema\/person\/aea408b5be59bf6e05556b03859b6b79"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/2013\/06\/7-ways-to-de-funk-yourself.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/2013\/06\/7-ways-to-de-funk-yourself.html"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/2013\/06\/7-ways-to-de-funk-yourself.html#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beyondblue\/files\/2013\/06\/Defunk-300x225.png","contentUrl":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beyondblue\/files\/2013\/06\/Defunk-300x225.png"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/2013\/06\/7-ways-to-de-funk-yourself.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"7 Ways to De-funk Yourself"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/","name":"Beyond Blue","description":"Beliefnet Voices - Therese J. Borchard","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/#\/schema\/person\/aea408b5be59bf6e05556b03859b6b79","name":"Beliefnet Staff","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/6f7\/6f77b66a3e683e8aeba5be93e4ae3e04x96.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/6f7\/6f77b66a3e683e8aeba5be93e4ae3e04x96.jpg","caption":"Beliefnet Staff"},"url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/author\/skirk"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/462"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7253"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7256,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7253\/revisions\/7256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}