Category Archives: Depression

Tinder While I Taper

09 Apr 2015
Written by Diana Spechler / New York Times

I joined Tinder. I did not plan to date while tapering off antidepressants, benzos and sleeping pills. But nor did I plan to go through a breakup.

Veteran Commits Suicide in VA Parking Lot

04 Apr 2015
Written by Madasyn Czebiniak / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

A Plum woman shot herself in the head Monday afternoon in the parking lot of the H.J. Heinz campus of the VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System in Aspinwall.

SPCA of Texas is Expanding Pet Grief Counseling Program

03 Apr 2015
Written by Jill Schilp / Dallas Morning News

If you have ever lost a beloved pet, you know how hard it can be. Many of us struggle to cope with the loss of a pet. Pet bereavement can be a lonely, solitary grief. Fortunately, if you are grieving your best friend, you don’t have to go through it alone.

Through Art, Standford Students Open Conversation About Mental Health

28 Mar 2015
Written by Elena Kadvany / Palo Alto Online

There are 129 pages of raw, intimate and powerful expressions of the experience of both mental and physical illness in “Release.Restart.Review,” a literary arts anthology created by and for Stanford University students that focuses on emotional well-being.

How Mental Illness Changes a Marriage

27 Mar 2015
Written by Kerri Miller / Minnesota Public Radio

Mark Lukach and his wife were doing what most twenty-something couples are doing a few years into a marriage: They were building their careers and planning a family. Until the night he got a glimpse into a future that would be different than the one they’d imagined.

Charles Hamilton Talks Overcoming Depression and Bipolar Disorder

25 Mar 2015
Written by Omar Burgess / New Pittsburgh Courier

Charles Hamilton’s last attempt at rap superstardom ended with him finding out he was dropped from Interscope Records via the Internet. A supposedly playful rap battle of him and his on-and-off girlfriend on video concluded with him getting punched, and later, headlines surfaced of the promising rapper/producer undergoing psychiatric treatment. In a new interview with Billboard, Hamilton’s mother and members from his new management team detail how he got back on track.

Leashing the Black Dog

18 Mar 2015
Written by Brett and Kate McKay / The Art of Manliness

Depression runs in my family. I grew up hearing stories and seeing family members sink into low moods for extended periods of time. When I was in high school, the “black dog,” as Winston Churchill called it, finally paid a visit to me. It was the spring semester of my senior year. (Between 20 and 30 years old is when most people experience their first major depressive episode; at 18, I was about on schedule.) I had been super busy balancing AP classes, student council, church youth activities, and work. I guess all the stress caught up to me (research shows that prolonged periods of intense stress can set off a depressive episode). At first I thought it was just burnout, something I had experienced and recovered from before. But as the weeks passed, I started feeling more and more down. There came a point when I just felt emotionally numb. I didn’t feel sad or happy — just gray from the time I woke up to the time I went to bed. Motivation was non-existent. Simply going through the motions of school and work was an exercise in pure will. I just wanted to stay in bed and not do anything.