Teen Mom star Catelynn Lowell has a lot on her mind. The pregnant star is due to give birth to a little girl any day now — and she recently took the opportunity to open up about her everyday battle with depression and anxiety.
Jerry Evans Jr. fills out a suicide report every time he picks up the phone. “Everyone who calls the crisis line gets assessed. If they call trying to refill a prescription, because they just dialed the wrong number, they still get assessed,” he explained.
About 1 in 13 Americans was suffering from depression at some point between 2009 and 2012, yet only 35% of people with severe depression and 20% of those with moderate depression said they had sought help from a mental health professional, according to a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Renee Montagne talks to writer Andrew Solomon, who has chronicled his own battle with depression, about how William Styron’s work opened up discussions of mental illness.
The apparent suicide of natural-hair entrepreneur Titi Branch is another reminder that outward success can often mask inner turmoil.
We know that the brains of people with depression are different from the brains of healthy people in both their chemical balance and structure, but despite the fact that roughly 10 percent of the U.S. population struggle with the disease, scientists know startlingly little about why these changes occur.
For more than 40 years, Judy Young and her 75-year-old spouse, Meg Chalmers, shared so much: camping, antiquing, traveling.
Depression is often seen as a problem mainly affecting women. Ironically, that’s one of the reasons why the condition is underreported among men, according to Amit Anand, MD, a professor of medicine at the Cleveland Clinic’s Lerner College of Medicine and vice-chair of research at its Center for Behavioral Health.