I can't beleive it. the 25% wrongly diagnosed depressed made it to the mainstream media!!!!

Up to 25% wrongly diagnosed as depressed: study

Updated Wed. Apr. 4 2007 12:28 PM ET

As many as one out of every four people told they have depression could, in fact, be reacting normally to some of life's more troubling times.
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070404/depression_070404/20070404?hub=Health

Fallout Boy rulz, Dawdy! Or at least that one song does.

I told my employer I was bipolar and it was the best thing I could have done. I agree that doing that is not an option for most people but I found it to benefit me in ways I didn't know were possible. For instance, my direct supervisor's mother (now deceased) was bipolar and she's shared intimate details on how that affected her growing up. Several of my coworkers are either bipolar, being treated for anxiety or are married to a person who is bipolar. I have been blatantly open to my coworkers about my treatment (including ECT's, multiple hospitalizations and, now, VNS) because I feel a deep need to educate people about mental illness. Again, not everybody can share such personal information with people they work with, but in my case it has worked out very well. (P.S. I've worked for this company for more than six years and have been hospitalized more than a dozen times since.)

What does Fallout Boy have to do with punk rock? Punk rock has not morphed into anything. It still lives and breathes in grimey clubs and bars where the drink of choice is pbr. All these faux emo-rock crap bands that live on MTV2 are just pop music that's been packaged for the kids who think they want to rock but don't know what the fuck rock is. They do not come from punk.

Hey don't diss my FOB.
:)

Hi Phil,

I hope Rosie falls off her trapeze-like device. She gives all depression sufferers( unipolar and bipolar) a bad name.

Charlie

Beyond cerebral vasoconstriction for memory and concentration, Nictotine is being proven to be a good antidepressant and anti-inflammatory. Works on the nicotine-acetylcholine neurotransmitter (nAChR), which has 5-HT (serotonin) similarities.

Furthermore nicotine stimulates catecholamine release (hippocampal norepinephrine and dopamine).

Nothing new in this study. Lot of scientists already trying to develop nicotine for commercial pharmalogical usage.

PS Unless you are your own boss, mum should always be the word. Leverage can be a nasty.

Who knows cheap trick ?
I went to an amazing World Music Festival in L.A. when I was 19. FOB generation has no idea what a real "most pit" is; Frisbee's passing through the crowd with weed for all.
Injured my left knee at the Showbox a few years ago, embracing evolution of music, and I wouldn't trade it for the world.

Rock on.

.."Even the respectable media feeds on shock horror, which then gets uncritically recycled throughout the blogosphere."

WOW. If I was a published author, on a junket I would never feel threatened by the blogosphere.

Shooting from the hip while on a book tour? fear of being questioned, while being questioned.

This inspires me to keep typing.

Cheers.

Stephany

typo:
"mosh pit". hell I cannot leave my comment saying "most pit".

This is a completely subjective observation, but I think that music can have more meaning for folks who are dx with an m.i.

Stephany - Bummer about the knee. I've almost passed out at the "Sweatbox" a couple of times when I've been caught in the middle of the floor. Sometime on must pay a price in order to rock. ;)

.."Real journalism means a commitment that spans years. Only by knowing what has gone on over a period of time can one place isolated events in context. This means doing the research, having your thoughts challenged."

Yeah.
I'm challenging your thoughts.

One last time: I get a book published, and I am on a pimping book sales junket? I don't care about blogosphere peeps.

Unless my world is so small; that I feel insecure, and seek comfort of self via a small group of people that think the way I do.

Stephany, the song "Dream Police" used to spook me when I was a kid - I guess it reminded me too much of the level of psych surveillance I was subjected to. For while they lived outside my head, but they moved in eventually, and as a result I wouldn't have known most mosh pits from my arm pit.

And this from FOB Pete Wentz: "Well, I'm out of Ambien. But you'd find Lorazepam, which is basically Xanax; Flexeril, which is a muscle relaxant; Seroquel; and I think there would probably be Zoloft in there." Oh, Pete, you are soooo cool! And soooo wrong - Lorazepam is Ativan not Xanax! Man, do you think Pete Doherty gets his cannabis confused with his crack cocaine?

If "college kids" need educating about what it's like to be completely fucking miserable, why don't they listen to Lou Reed or the Violent Femmes or something, and skip the editorialising.

ha Ruth.I know, poor Pete.

Chloe-yeah I just assumed i was going to die in the sweatbox.

an interesting site, mostly on liver health but some interesting stuff on depression on this page -

http://www.alchemistlab.com/otherillnesses4.html

cheers,
Nick

I just got through reading that Kool Aid story.
I think I'm going to have a stroke.

"Only by knowing what has gone on over a period of time can one place isolated events in context. This means doing the research, having your thoughts challenged, carefully reading the med journal articles, listening (not just talking) to the experts, listening (not just talking) to the parents. "

Me/McManamy it's on. All 5'1" of me.

I'll even leave part of my bipolar brain at home. The part the drugs ate.
I'll bring my own personal BP life experience; and combine that with the 24 years of experience I have of living with and "seeing through" a child who was labeled "ADHD" "bipolar" & "depressed" at age FOUR.

Ahh...STL? 4-6 year olds? I think I'll follow up on this too...I wonder if they'll include no meds and just The Dog Whisperer way of: "rules, boundaries and limitations" as a "treatment" in this study as well as doping them up?

That's what I did, flushed the damned meds & told the teachers to deal with him how I did at home.
that really irks me how "back then" and even more today how teachers and now commercials are dx children!....anyway, now this "bipolar, needing to be drugged child" is a gifted musician and an assistant fire chief at age 24. He still remembers the time out chair well.(He spent most of his childhood there)*I'm kidding* only a 1/4 of his childhood ;)

Why does this name-dropping man get me so angry?
btw..he stole "drive-by media" from Limbaugh.
grrrr. I'm goin to bed.

I'll tell ya why "this name-dropping man" makes you so angry.
Because he sounds so freaking arrogant, that I want to knock his ass off of that pedestal he appears to be creating for himself.

One comment:

I paid for my east coast trip out of my own pocket. No pimping on a book junket.

Medical Marijuana is needed for people who are suffering long and prolonged deaths; or live with such chronic pain, that I find it inhumane to prevent this as an option for management of symptoms that no one would want to suffer; the Feds piss me the hell off. Damn. Seriously, smacking down people who are legitimately trying to help others live a less painful existence is a crime in itself.
The general public for the most part, also believe that people just want pot legal for recreation purpose. Not so. This is an herb, and this planet, in my opinion has the remedy for all illnesses; and we need to consider this a natural remedy.
Lithium is accepted. Bark from the Pacific Yew trees became protected by Bush Sr.; it saves lives every day.
Dying with dignity, and less pain..why would anyone want to take that away.

Tri _ity Mental Health Center Malden Massachusetts PACT is a place where managers are cintrolling and incompitent. This leads to bad treatment.