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In 1990, Congress designated the first full week of every October to be NationalMental Health Awareness Week. This year that week is October 7-13, 2007 and October 11th is both National Depression Screening Day, sponsored by Screening for Mental Health, … Continue reading →

Once a year or so, I’m tempted to shave my head like I’m going through chemo to make my depression visible to others. I’m thinking if I pulled a Sinead O’Connor, people would take the illness seriously. I saw a … Continue reading →

Consider these statistics: Nearly 50 percent of asthma patients have symptoms of depression. At least 40 percent of people with Parkinson’s disease experience depression, and anxiety is often reported. 45 percent to 65 percent of people who have had a … Continue reading →

A team of researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently discovered why the drug ketamine may act as a rapid antidepressant. Ketamine is best known as an illicit, psychedelic club drug. Often referred to as “Special K” or a “horse … Continue reading →

I overheard my husband describing my health to someone on the phone the other day. “She’s definitely better,” he said. “She’s trying a lot of new things. It’s hard to say what’s helping the most.” “Well, she’ll always have it. … Continue reading →

According to the Sequenced Treatment Alternatives to Relieve Depression (STAR*D)study, an unbiased investigation funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, at standard doses of the most commonly used class of antidepressants (SSRIs), only 30 percent of people with severe … Continue reading →

Weight gain is one of the main reasons that people diagnosed with depression and other mood disorders stop taking their medication. Some people gain as much as seven percent of their body weight — or more — from psychiatric meds. In a study funded … Continue reading →

This is so important. Anxiety is a little-understood mental disorder, but a common one. Many with anxiety will never seek out any kind of treatment for it and often suffer alone, keeping their thoughts and feelings hidden from those around … Continue reading →

62 percent of students report marinating in perpetual, toxic anxiety. Pursuing your degree? Feeling the pressure? It’s that time in the term when the heat is turned up-between deadlines, exams and everything in between. If you are a student of today, … Continue reading →

These stars all struggled with depression. Not too long ago, people didn’t really understand depression. A lot of well-intentioned people still thought of it as something someone could just will themselves out of. They thought depression was just feeling sad … Continue reading →