http://blogs.psychcentral.com/depression News and insights into depression, updated weekly. With Christine Stapleton. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:05:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention in Fort Lauderdale. Bryan could not find enough adjectives to ... http://blogs.psychcentral.com/depression/2009/11/natl-suicide-survivors-day-three-suicides-survivors/ 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, why people commit suicide, my new book on my experience with depression, bipolar and alcoholism, along ... http://blogs.psychcentral.com/depression/2009/11/suicide-survivors-day-what-about-the-children/ 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 and packets of Kleenex. I want to share with you what I experience here today. I ... http://blogs.psychcentral.com/depression/2009/11/national-suicide-survivors-day-blogging-live-from-fort-lauderdale/ 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 done? How could I have missed this? Why? Why? Why? How do I live with ... http://blogs.psychcentral.com/depression/2009/11/depressions-ultimate-victims-suicide-survivors/ 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 piece written by the Washington Post's Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Charles Krauthammer. In it, Krauthammer, a psychiatrist ... http://blogs.psychcentral.com/depression/2009/11/the-fort-hood-massacre-secondary-ptsd-or-jihad/ 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 held throughout Europe as the continent mourns the suicide of Robert Enke, the beloved German soccer ... http://blogs.psychcentral.com/depression/2009/11/the-questions-robert-enke-has-made-us-ask-what-is-your-answer-please/   Stigma kills. Robert Enke, the beloved goalkeeper for the German national soccer team, stepped in front of a train on Tuesday.  Enke, 32, was at the height of his career – expected to be the German team’s goalkeeper  in the 2010 World Cup. He and his wife Teresa had adopted a daughter, Leila, ... http://blogs.psychcentral.com/depression/2009/11/stigma-not-depression-killed-robert-enke/ 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 induced free-fall. Eventually the rest of the band got clean and sober and reunited for ... http://blogs.psychcentral.com/depression/2009/11/aerosmith-my-drinking-my-depression-and-my-hopes-for-steven-tyler/ 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 through the waiting room and leave. My therapist will poke her head out, smile and ... http://blogs.psychcentral.com/depression/2009/11/the-fort-hood-massacre-a-disturbed-psychiatrist-a-gun-and-the-reality-of-war/ On Thursday former First Lady Rosalynn Carter, 82, will do what she has done for over 30 years - bring together doctors, policy makers and consumers to draft policies that will decrease stigma and discrimination against people with mental illnesses and promote positive policy change on mental health issues. Mrs. Carter's ... http://blogs.psychcentral.com/depression/2009/11/the-rosalynn-carter-symposium-on-mental-health-policy-make-time-to-listen-on-thursday-and-friday/