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I was honored to participate last week in a blogger conference call sponsored by Revolution Health with Dr. Val Jone, Dr. Mark Smaller, and Ross Szabo about depression and mental illness among college students today. You can listen to the podcast of the interview by clicking here. We covered a variety of topics, important information…

Revolution Health’s new Online College Health Center, which has information and resources for both students and parents, launched last week. You can get to it by clicking here.

I mentioned some of these in my prior post, but these warning signs are taken from Ross’s “Behind Happy Faces” website: Changes in feelings such as fear and anger are a normal part of life. Personal situations, such as a family divorce, loss of a job, or strained relationships with family or friends can cause…

Yikes! Here are some facts I came across on Ross’s “Behind Happy Faces” website regarding depression and mental illness among college kids. I’m thinking that maybe I won’t send David and Katherine off to school, as much as that sounds heavenly right now. Here are the facts, just the facts: * One out of every…

I was troubled by yesterday’s article in the New York Times about the soar in bipolar diagnoses in young people. Not because I don’t believe it. But because I want to understand it: how the diagnosis of bipolar could increase from 20,000 kids in 1994 to 800,000 in 2003, the latter figure being about one…

“Why can’t I just vent to a friend?” I’ve asked my doctor on numerous occassions, feeling too tired or too poor to go back to therapy. I wish it was the same: counseling and coffee. But it’s not. There is a healing power in psychotherapy and cognitive-behavioral theory that you can’t match by grabbing a…

In a New York Times interview, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, the chairman of the psychiatry department at Olean General Hospital in Olean, N.Y,, and clinical associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Buffalo, discusses severeal pertinent questions that we’ve talked about here on Beyond Blue: weight gain with meds, postpartum depression, depression in menopause and…

My blogging buddy, James Bishop, over at “Finding Optimism,” wrote an excellent post entitled “12 Ways to Care for a Depressed Person.” I’ll give you the first three, and then go over there yourself to get the others. It’s worth it. The person with depression usually can’t see a way forward. They may fervently believe…

You know that doll idea that I talked about in my “12 Ways to Wait for Recovery” post? The object that was supposed to represent the scared little girl inside me, whom the more evolved and logical adult could console? It’s not going so well. My guardian angel, Ann, and I were supposed to go…

How weird is this? Just as I’m quoting Blondie about the topic of letting go, I check out her blog and she’s writing on the same subject. And very poignant and beautiful stuff. She’s got some cool graphics, too, that I don’t know how to do yet (sorry!). So go to her blog, Tales From…
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