Speaking of Kay, I don’t know if I am the only one who caught this comment of hers of the message board of my post “Video: O Holy Night”: Merry christmas to you, Therese, and all BB readers and writers.? I have experienced rare moments of peace and happiness. I hope you have, too. It…

Also from Lilit Marcus, this interesting article about three new novels that cast a new light on Britain’s hidden epidemic. Stephanie Merritt, who suffers from depression herself, writes a memoir for Random House (and this article) because she wants greater understanding of a subject that is still largely taboo in her country. To get to…

A few years back the father of a woman I know shot himself because he couldn’t take his chronic pain anymore. This guy was a highly educated man–a doctor, actually—but, despite all his knowledge and connections, could not find anything to relieve him besides smoking a little grass occasionally. Like I did in my suicidal…

I recently read an interview with Dr. Paul McClelland, a psychiatrist at St. Agnes Hospital in Baltimore about the serious physical changes in the body and brain that can be a result of depression. These conditions or complications are among them: 1. Anorexia. Many depressed patients also have eating disorders which can cause irreversible kidney…

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