Depressed Lawyers: A Little Help For My Friends
Instead of viewing depression as either a character defect or a biochemical defect, depression is better seen as a strategy for shutting down overwhelming pain.
Instead of viewing depression as either a character defect or a biochemical defect, depression is better seen as a strategy for shutting down overwhelming pain.
Footnoted | Michelle Leder | Posted 07.24.2008 | Business
While some people continue to debate whether or not we're actually in a recession, Apple (AAPL) went a step further in the 10Q it filed yesterday, usi...
Liz Spikol | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics
As a mental health journalist and someone who suffers with bipolar disorder, if there's one thing I know, it's how to solve a "mental" crisis.
Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics
While President Bush continues to toss around such euphemisms as "rough patch" and "tough times," most Americans have clearly felt the effects of a recession for the past few months.
Amy Swift | Posted 07.02.2008 | Living
No one can ever know what's behind suicide. It's a great mystery; a tragic and wasteful one. But we can build communities of people who serve to support and sustain in the high times as well as the low times.
beliefnet.com | Therese J. Borchard | Posted 06.30.2008 | Living
My therapist helped me to build a personalized "toolbox": a list of a dozen depression busters to direct me toward mental health, and an emergency lif...
Dr. Tian Dayton | Posted 06.25.2008 | Living
We have to move to activate the "feel good" body chemicals that are built into us as nature's mood stabilizers and mood elevators.
AP | NATE JENKINS | Posted 06.20.2008 | Entertainment
LINCOLN, Neb. — Funny man and former talk show host Dick Cavett came home to talk about depression, what he called "the worst agony devised for ...
Dr. Michael J. Breus | Posted 06.18.2008 | Living
If you suffer from chronic insomnia and have adolescent kids, they could be at a higher risk not only for insomnia themselves, but also for suicidal behavior and for using drugs that induce sleep (like hypnotics).
Danny Schechter | Posted 06.16.2008 | Business
The US does not have energy independence or, for that matter, financial independence. Why? Partly because we live as if we are an island empire in an interdependent world.
Doug Bremner | Posted 06.13.2008 | Living
The clinical trials of anti-smoking drug Chantix excluded people with mental disorders, but smoking is increased in this population, and these people are obviously at increased risk of suicidality.
Dr. Tian Dayton | Posted 06.12.2008 | Living
The science behind just how and why exercise can help to reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression has been a much studied topic over the last two dec...
Caroline Presno | Posted 05.16.2008 | Living
I'm seeimg an interesting trend in my clients during their therapy sessions -- if there were actual diagnoses for this trend, we might use terms like "election mania" or "post-election disorder."
Nathaniel Bach | Posted 05.07.2008 | Home
Psychology may be too "elite" for the new Clintons, but it seems clear they're more than midway through the five classic stages of grieving: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance.
Elissa Altman | Posted 05.03.2008 | Living
Where arugula and iceberg used to be the politically defining culinary bellwethers of choice (you figure out which party goes which way), it's now, alas, salt.
Doug Bremner | Posted 05.02.2008 | Living
A collective howl is going up amongst women over at medications.com over the birth control pill, Yasmin.
Deirdre Imus | Posted 04.22.2008 | Living
If most childhood diseases are preventable...why are so many on the rise? Because toxic chemicals are everywhere and not enough attention is being given to prevention.
Doug Bremner | Posted 04.09.2008 | Living
It's bad enough that it can drive you crazy trying to get your prescription medications filled, but now it looks like sometimes your prescription meds themselves can make you, well... nuts.
Blake Fleetwood | Posted 04.03.2008 | Business
If Soros is right and foreigners lose confidence in the U.S. economy, they will want their money back, the dollar will fall, and foreign investments will tumble.
MarketWatch | Ruth Mantell | Posted 03.31.2008 | Business
For many people, filing for bankruptcy is seen as a scary, worst-case scenario, but consumer advocates say this last resort could be a real help for b...
Marvin Kitman | Posted 03.31.2008 | Politics
Whoever emerges victorious in Denver is going to lose the election. Why am I so pessimistic?
ABC News | RADHA CHITALE | Posted 03.30.2008 | Living
Spouses are at high risk for depression when one party has a clinical disorder like depression or bipolar disorder, because they spend a large amount ...
Anya Kamenetz | Posted 03.25.2008 | Business
We, the people, must rewrite the rules of the market, to limit environmental degradation, the unregulated speculation that has brought our financial system to the brink of ruin, and the concentration of wealth.
BusinessWeek | Chris Farrell | Posted 03.19.2008 | Business
Booms and busts are inevitable in a capitalist system. Right now, the Federal Reserve and, belatedly, the U.S. Treasury, are out to avoid facing the t...
Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 03.19.2008 | Business
I've been in business for about 5,427 dog years and at no time during my career has there ever been a day when somebody wasn't worried about what some security analyst was writing about us.
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Bruce E. Levine | Posted 07.24.2008 | Living