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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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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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The Fort Hood Massacre: A disturbed psychiatrist, a gun and the reality of war

Friday, November 6th, 2009

I will go to my therapist's office this afternoon. I will sit in the waiting room and read an old magazine. Another client will walk from a hallway that leads to my therapist's office, pass ...

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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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Dual diagnosis: “Many of them do recover if they have the capacity to be honest”

Sunday, October 18th, 2009

There are those, too, who suffer from grave emotional and mental disorders, but many of them do recover if they have the capacity to be honest. Chapter 5, ...

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Dual-diagnosis: Remembering to remember how bad it was

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

I have an illness that tells me I do not have an illness. I am an alcoholic. It is one of three mental illnesses that I have - along with depression and bipolar. I have ...

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Dual diagnosis: Race and recovery

Sunday, October 11th, 2009

My name is Christine, and I am mentally ill. I have depression, bipolar and alcoholism. I am also white (actually I am kind of a pasty beige with age spots freckles but race ...

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