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	<title>Depression on My Mind</title>
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	<description>News, insights and commentary into depression from Christine Stapleton.</description>
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		<title>Disappointment ≠ Depression</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the words of the prophetic Chumbawumba, &#8220;I get knocked down, but I get up again&#8230;&#8221; And again. And again. And again. If there is one thing I do truly well, it&#8217;s disappointment. You would think that somewhere along the way I would have learned that expectations are premeditated disappointments. The way to avoid a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Depression and Bipolar: When Will I Learn? It&#8217;s the Caffeine and Alcohol, Stupid</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I drank a Red Bull. What the hell was I thinking? I wrote a while back about the effects of stimulants on the manic brain &#8211; like mine. It took me a few decades, but I came to the conclusion that caffeine is probably not the smartest thing for me to ingest. It seemed kind [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/depression/2012/02/depression-and-bipolar-when-will-i-learn-its-the-caffeine-and-alcohol-stupid/</link>
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		<title>Job Stress and Depression: I Just Need to Get This Out&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I feel like an alarm clock &#8211; necessary but loathed by the people you disturb. That&#8217;s what it is like to be a newspaper reporter. Writing a balanced and fair story means you tick-off everyone in it. Just asking questions and doing research for a story incenses some people. But everyone wants the media [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/depression/2012/02/job-stress-and-depression-i-just-need-to-get-this-out/</link>
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		<title>My Depression Hates the &#8220;C&#8221; Word</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I hate the &#8220;C&#8221; word. Cancer. Both my parents died of cancer. Dad died first. The week after we buried him, Mom started her last round of chemo. Eighteen months later, she was dead, too. It was a really rough couple of years. I hadn&#8217;t wanted to think about this today but it seems I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/depression/2012/01/my-depression-hates-the-c-word/</link>
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		<title>Staying Sober and Depression-Free with the Housewives of Beverly Hills</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes the power of a bad example is as powerful as a good example. I&#8217;m thinking of Kim Richards, one of the housewives on The Housewives of Beverly Hills. My daughter got me hooked on that show when she came home from college on winter break.  There was a time &#8211; not too long ago [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/depression/2012/01/staying-sober-and-depression-free-with-the-housewives-of-beverly-hills/</link>
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		<title>Depression Prayer: &#8220;Give Us This Day Our Daily Feelings&#8230;&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t think about David Funchess much anymore. I watched him die on April 22, 1986 in Florida&#8217;s electric chair. He was the first Vietnam Veteran executed in the United States. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder had yet to be discovered when Funchess, a highly-decorated combat Marine, fatally stabbed a couple during a hold-up in Jacksonville in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/depression/2012/01/depression-prayer-give-us-this-day-our-daily-feelings/</link>
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		<title>Me, My Depression and The Donald</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The great thing about being a journalist in south Florida is you get some really weird assignments. Couple of years ago I went alligator hunting with some wounded vets courtesy of the Wounded Warrior Project. I&#8217;ve been assigned to go scuba diving to cover damage to coral reefs. Chased oil in the bayous of Louisiana [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/depression/2012/01/me-my-depression-and-the-donald/</link>
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		<title>When it Comes to Antidepressants, Who are You Going to Trust with Your Brain?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My meds FINALLY came in the mail. Amen. I take three meds, but I ran out of one before the refills came in the mail. Three days without one of the meds. Three days. My brain was starting to feel squishy. I had a horrible nightmare and I could feel a tsunami size headache building [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/depression/2012/01/when-it-comes-to-antidepressants-who-are-you-going-to-trust-with-your-brain/</link>
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		<title>Dear Mail Carrier: Please Bring Me My Meds&#8230;Quick</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I screwed up. I am blessed to have an amazing prescription drug plan. I send in my prescriptions for $60, I get a three-month supply. Doesn&#8217;t matter which drug or how much it really costs. I pay just $60. So, why do I wait until I am nearly out of my meds to mail in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/depression/2012/01/dear-mail-carrier-please-bring-me-my-meds-quick/</link>
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		<title>My New Year&#8217;s Wish for Folks with Depression&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I interviewed a woman about the National Audubon Society&#8217;s Christmas Bird Count. The annual bird count is like a massive flash mob for bird lovers. They go to their designed 15-mile diameter circle  and at a set time they count birds for 24-hours. The nearest bird count to me is about 25 miles south [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/depression/2011/12/my-new-years-wish-for-folks-with-depression/</link>
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