Have you noticed that we seem to continually go through huge ups and downs in our lives? Our economy goes on a manic run, then crashes. We get all hyped up for another war then become depressed when it never seems to lead to the peaceful result we had hoped to achieve. It reminds me
For most of my life I haven’t understood my anger or why it was so often directed at the women in my life. I’ve been married three times. My first marriage lasted 10 years and ended in an acrimonious divorce. My second marriage began with extreme attraction and passion and luckily ended before one of
A new Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is due out next year and there is renewed discussion about what constitutes a “mental illness.” One of the world’s leading psychiatrists is questioning the very concept of mental illness. “In non-psychiatric circles mental illness all too often is considered to be whatever psychiatrists say it
Depression runs in my family. I became aware of that fact when my father took an overdose of sleeping pills when I was five years old. Growing up I had little understanding of what had happened or why he was hospitalized and disappeared from our lives. But I did grow up with a hunger to
“Women seek help—men die.” This conclusion was drawn from a study of suicide prevention by Jules Angst & Celile Ernst. They found that 75% of those who sought professional help in an institution for suicide prevention were female. Conversely 75% of those who committed suicide in the same year were male. Why do so many
Depression is on the rise world-wide and most of us know someone who has been seriously depressed at some time in their lives. The World Health Organization World Mental Health (WMH) Survey Initiative, one of the most comprehensive studies ever done, found that over 120 million people suffer with depression and it is responsible for
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