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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 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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Stigma - not depression - killed Robert Enke

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

Stigma kills. Robert Enke, the beloved goalkeeper for the German national soccer team, stepped in front of a train ...

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Aerosmith: My drinking, my depression and my hopes for Steven Tyler

Monday, November 9th, 2009

Please tell me that Steven Tyler's relapse last year was not the cause of his splitting from Aerosmith this week. Tyler got clean in 1986 - when the band was in a drug and alcohol ...

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Depression and my “drunk dreams”

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

I had another "drunk dream" last night. After eleven years of sobriety I do not have them as often but I do still have them and probably always will. "Drunk dreams" are the dreams of ...

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Suicide: What can I say?

Monday, October 26th, 2009

I emceed the annual Out of the Darkness walk last Saturday for our local chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. This group is very special to me - not just because ...

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The guilt of the mentally ill parent

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

I got sober within hours of my husband and I splitting up. That was 11 years ago. Our daughter was 6. She is about to turn turn 18 and we are in college application hell. ...

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You know you are getting better when you want to be you

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

I was having a discussion with some friends a while ago and someone asked this question: If you could be anyone, who would you be? Angelina Jolie popped into my head because, come on, those lips are ...

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Depression: Financial self-flagellation and self-esteem

Monday, October 5th, 2009

"Depression is about self-esteem," my therapist told me at our last session. Really? I thought it was about dopamine and seratonin and synapses. Yes, it is biological but in my latest bout I played Russian roulette ...

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Depression: This is what it is

Saturday, September 26th, 2009

I just slept 15 of the last 18 hours. When I finish writing this I will sleep some more. I feel guilty. I should be at work. I know what is going on. No mystery here. ...

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