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		<title>Therese Borchard and Beyond Blue &#8211; Creativity and Mood Disorders</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Therese J. Borchard is the author of the blog “Beyond Blue” on Beliefnet.com, which is featured regularly on The Huffington Post and was voted by PsychCentral.com as one of the top 10 depression blogs.
The first of these two videos is from her post Snow Blizzard 2010 and MENTAL HEALTH.
She notes, &#8220;Here&#8217;s the video I made [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://depressionandcreativity.org/video-beyond-blue-on-creativity-and-mood-disorders/</link>
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		<title>The Irritable Male Syndrome</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ In a Shrink Rap Radio interview, Jed Diamond, Ph.D. talks about his book The Irritable Male Syndrome: Understanding and Managing the 4 Key Causes of Depression and Aggression. Here is an excerpt from the transcript:
We used to think that male menopause was metaphorical&#8230; a midlife crisis like what women go through. But these hormonally [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://depressionandcreativity.org/the-irritable-male-syndrome/</link>
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		<title>Working with depression</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I was feeling so sad all the time, and I couldn&#8217;t shake it. I started burying my feelings, and it got to a point where I couldn&#8217;t even tell my family or my friends, &#8216;I&#8217;m twisted,&#8217; or &#8216;I&#8217;m exhausted,&#8217; or &#8216;I&#8217;m so angry.&#8217;&#8221;
 Alicia Keys [right] added, &#8220;I became a master of putting up the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://depressionandcreativity.org/working-with-depression/</link>
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		<title>Eckhart Tolle On Depression</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Oprah and Eckhart Tolle&#8217;s A New Earth Online Class:
Sharon (audience member): I have close relationships to people who suffer from depression. And in talking with them, I find that there&#8217;s an inwardness and a strong identity that they have as people who suffer from depression.
Eckhart Tolle: Whether it is a physical condition that one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://depressionandcreativity.org/eckhart-tolle-on-depression/</link>
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		<title>Dealing with depression to access our creativity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Heather Locklear is seeking treatment for anxiety and depression. &#8220;She requested an in-depth evaluation of her medication and entered into a medical facility for proper diagnosis and treatment,&#8221; her publicist said. [The Associated Press 06/26/2008]
Musician Shawn Colvin explained on an episode of the Oprah show (Depressed, Mentally Ill and Famous), &#8220;Part of the way I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://depressionandcreativity.org/dealing-with-depression-to-access-our-creativity/</link>
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		<title>Manic Depression and Creativity – A Book Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Manic Depression and Creativity – A Book Review, by Paul Bloch, Serendip blog.
Manic depression, also known as bipolar disorder, is a mental disorder, which is characterized by a cyclic shift in moods between mania and depression. Manic symptoms include hyperactivity, inflated self-esteem, high risk activity, decrease need for sleep, distractibility, and flight of ideas [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://depressionandcreativity.org/manic-depression-and-creativity-%e2%80%93-a-book-review/</link>
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		<title>Andrew Solomon on depression and hope</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ By his mid-twenties, Andrew Solomon earned international accolades for his work as a novelist, journalist and historian. At 31 he descended into a major depression. He was helped by a combination of family support, medications and talk therapy.
Andrew Solomon : Depression is an illness of loneliness. And the primary experience is the feeling of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://depressionandcreativity.org/andrew-solomon-on-depression-and-hope/</link>
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		<title>Natural medicine for depression &#8211; naturopathy and supplements</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Excerpts from free ebook Natural Help For Bipolar Disorder :
   While Western medicine has become the norm in many cultures, it is not the only treatment option.
Conventional western medicine, often called allopathic medicine, is the system of medicine taught at most medical schools and most pharmaceutical and synthetic medicines are manufactured and marketed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://depressionandcreativity.org/natural-medicine-for-depression/</link>
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		<title>Machismo and Melancholy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 lifelong [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://depressionandcreativity.org/machismo-and-melancholy/</link>
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		<title>Making Good Use of Depression &#8211; Kay Redfield Jamison</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;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.&#8221; Kay Redfield Jamison
 Depression can be a profoundly damaging and disrupting condition, spiritually and [...]]]></description>
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