According to The National Institute of Mental Health, in America alone, more than 6 million men have depression each year. Here are some excerpts from a Los Angeles Times article: In May 2003, four-time Superbowl quarterback Terry Bradshaw embarked on a multi-city campaign sponsored by GlaxoSmithKline, maker of the antidepressant Paxil, to discuss his own [...]
“Depressed, I have crawled on my hands and knees in order to get across a room and have done it for month after month. But normal or manic I have run faster, thought faster, and loved faster than most I know.” Kay Redfield Jamison Depression can be a profoundly damaging and disrupting condition, spiritually and [...]
Terri Cheney, a former entertainment lawyer, recounts her decades-long struggle with bipolar disorder in her new book “Manic: A Memoir.” Hilary MacGregor writes in the Los Angeles Times, “The book is not the first to give an autobiographical account of living bipolar. It joins the ranks of Kay Redfield Jamison‘s “An Unquiet Mind,” Carrie Fisher‘s [...]
Tony-nominated playwright Elizabeth Swados revealed in an O Magazine article ["Bipolar Diaries," October 2007] that in her work she functioned at a high level, but in private she was in the frantic throes of bipolar disorder. “I was talking as fast as an auctioneer, dashing from one activity to another with such intensity that I [...]
Deanne Repich is the Founder of the National Institute of Anxiety and Stress, Inc. In her article Coming “Out of the Closet” about Your Anxiety, she talks about her experiences with this very common, and self-limiting, mental health challenge. Here are some excerpts: Keeping your anxiety a secret from others can be a huge burden. [...]
Owen Wilson was hospitalized Sunday following a reported suicide attempt. An attorney reports the actor slit his wrists, and that he had been taking anti-depressants. Wilson has reportedly also had drug abuse problems in the past. He is far from alone. According to the online listing “Famous People Who Have Suffered from Depression or Manic-Depression,” [...]
