Depression On My Mind

Archive for March, 2009

Say it ain’t so

Monday, March 30th, 2009
Will someone please tell me that the last paragraph of an Associated Press article about a recommendation to screen all teens for depression is WRONG? "Routine depression testing should occur only if psychotherapy is also readily ...

Rant-o-Rama

Thursday, March 26th, 2009
Say you are an alcoholic and/or addict and dual diagnosed (or triple diagnosed like me). You want to get clean and sober. You have heard that successful sobriety hinges on the one addict/alcoholic helping another. ...

God, as I understand him…her…it

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
One of the few good things about being in a deep, dark clinical depression is that it opens your mind. Wide open. Desperation and hopelessness will do that. It did for me. I found a ...

Me, my daughter and Sylvia Plath

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
Nicholas Hughes, 47, hanged himself last week. Forty-six years ago Hughes' mother, poet Sylvia Plath, placed her head in an oven and turned the gas on while her 2-year-old daughter and 13-month-old son, Nicholas, slept. ...

Maybe not today…

Monday, March 23rd, 2009
I watched the movie Milk over the weekend. Sean Penn portrays Harvey Milk, the controversial San Francisco gay rights activist who became the first gay to hold an elected to office in the United States.  While ...

A room with no stigma

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
I am in awe of Dr. Helen Mayberg. Actually, I am in awe of anyone who can drill holes in someone's head, insert some wires and bring that person out of the most hopeless depression. It ...

Welcome to Rant-O-Rama

Monday, March 16th, 2009
Welcome to Rant-O-Rama, an occasional blog about stuff that really ticks me off in the mental health world. Please feel free to share your own rants. Believe me, it feels really good. I was watching the ...

All mania, all the time…

Friday, March 13th, 2009
"Wow. That was a brilliant idea." That's what I have been hearing lately in my head. Oh, I am so full of good ideas. They're just popping out all over. I write them down. I share ...

If Terry Bradshaw can do it…

Thursday, March 12th, 2009
Uber philanthropist Audrey Gruss' mother suffered from depression and she remembers what it was like growing up with a mentally ill mother. Gruss now lives part-time in a breathtaking oceanfront mansion in Palm Beach. Gruss ...

Raising Awareness and Money in Palm Beach

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
For four months every year - December through April - Palm Beach becomes ground zero for charity fundraising in the United States. Groups from all over the world descend on the island with hands open ...
Hoping for a Happy Ending
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Recent Comments
  • Lucy: Did the same today in Raleigh, NC. Lost my darling boyfriend to suicide May 18, 2008. Nothing will ever, ever...
  • daz: On a forum someone argued it should not be called suicide- killing of the self but instead called...
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  • Angela Morris: Well, I have definitely gotten the message from this society that it is not ok to be mentally ill. Now...
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