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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 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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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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How can people doubt that depression is real?

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

I am on vacation in the Florida Keys. I had dinner tonight with a friend at a restaurant on the Gulf of Mexico. The sunset was postcard over-the-top stunning - pink, orange, lavender, yellow. After ...

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Depression: My Teenage Wasteland

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

Sometimes, when I have been feeling really good for awhile, I begin to think that maybe I have made up all this depression and bipolar stuff. Maybe I am faking it or making it a ...

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Remembering my depression

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

Yesterday was my anniversary. I am not married and I was not celebrating another year of sobriety. April 27 is the anniversary of my last clinical depression. It was one of the worst days of my ...

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Depression in a bottle

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009

Alcohol is a depressant. I wished someone had told me this when I was 14, when my drinking career began. Although at that age it wouldn't have meant anything to me. I was going to ...

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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. ...

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