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May 21st, 2008 at 12:14 pm

The National Institute of Mental Health reports that approximately 18.8 million American adults have a depressive disorder. Depression is not discriminating, seeping into all age, race, gender, and socioeconomic groups. It stalls careers, strains relationships, and ends lives. So if the disease is so widespread, why aren’t more people discussing it?

American Masters

May 21st, 2008 at 12:10 pm

Darkness Visible: William Styron’s Battle with Depression

William Styron’s fiction grapples with some of the most harrowing events and unresolved moral questions of our time. But Styron’s work about mental illness — specifically, the dark demon of depression — deserves an equal share of praise.

PBS Take One Step

May 21st, 2008 at 12:07 pm

Jane Pauley: Her Story, Beyond the Blues

For three weeks beginning in late May 2001, Jane Pauley’s home was the stuff of many a New Yorker’s dreams. Lavish morning sunlight helped her cultivate beds of African violets. …

Scientific American Frontiers

May 21st, 2008 at 10:00 am

The Mysterious Power of the Placebo Effect

In study after study, significant numbers of patients suffering from depression report feeling better after taking a sham pill. A few years ago, biobehavioral experts at UCLA actually measured physical changes in response to placebo treatment in some of their patients. Their findings may change the way we treat depression. Watch this full episode of Scientific American Frontiers to learn more.

New York Voices

May 21st, 2008 at 7:16 am

Treatments for Teen Depression

Teenagers are most vulnerable for the illness of depression threatening their lives.

New York Voices:
New York Voices did a story in 2005 about treatments and problems of some NY …