2009 November | Depression On My Mind

Kicking depression: Finding faith in your worst nightmare

Monday, November 30th, 2009

Something horrible happened here on Thanksgiving night. I heard about it when I walked into the newsroom on Friday morning. As the day ...

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Depression: Tis the season

Friday, November 27th, 2009

As of 12:01 am EST today, the holidays began in my house. Before that time I do now allow anything Christmas in my house - no lights, no lists and no music - especially that ...

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Life-Gratitude=Depression

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

Depression is a lot of things: a chemical imbalance, a neurotransmitter malfunction or "a cluster of emotional, physical and behavioral ...

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Natl. Suicide Survivors Day: Three suicide survivors

Saturday, November 21st, 2009

All threee have dates. Bryan's date is Oct. 10, 2008. That is the day his father killed himself. Bryan talked about his father today at the annual survivor conference sponsored by the Southeast Florida Chapter of ...

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Suicide Survivors Day: What about the children?

Saturday, November 21st, 2009

There are books on display by the front table here at the annual conference for survivors sponsored by the southeast Florida Chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. There are books on grief, ...

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National Suicide Survivors Day: Blogging live from Fort Lauderdale

Saturday, November 21st, 2009

I am spending today with several dozen survivors at a gathering sponsored by the southeast Florida chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. On each table are programs for the event, LifeSavers candy ...

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Depression’s ultimate victims: Suicide survivors

Saturday, November 21st, 2009

Today is National Suicide Survivors Day. Survivors are the loved ones who live with anguished - and sometimes angry - hearts. Their lives are consumed with unimaginable sorrow and unanswered questions: What could I have ...

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The Fort Hood massacre: Secondary PTSD or Jihad?

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

It is naive to believe that people will respond to stressful events in exactly the same way. Actually, it is stupid. Which is why I am slightly ticked off this morning by an opinion ...

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The questions Robert Enke has helped us ask…

Monday, November 16th, 2009

I was a panelist last Friday on the BBC radio program called World Have Your Say. The title of the program was Should You Make Your Mental Illness Public? Debates like this are being ...

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