SHOCKED TACTICS
CELTIC CONNECTIONS: WHEN MICHELLE SHOCKED PLAYS CELTIC CONNECTIONS NEXT MONTH SHE’LL PREACH RELIGION RATHER THAN REVOLUTION … BUT FAITH HAS NOT DULLED HER ANGER
BY ANDREW PURCELL
Sunday Herald
THERE’S ONLY two things you don’t talk about in polite company – one is politics, the other is religion.” Michelle Shocked delivers her favourite line with a shrug [...]
Electroconvulsive Therapy Saves Lives. But 70 Years After It First Gained Currency as a Treatment For Major Depression, ECT Continues to Court Controversy.
By Shirley Wang
Special to The Washington Post
Tuesday, July 24, 2007; HE01
Anthony Mauger woke up at 5 a.m. one morning nearly 10 years ago and heard a message in his head telling him to [...]
Our son’s condition kept getting worse, and everything we tried to help him failed. Then we discovered there was one final option: Electroshock therapy.
By Ann Bauer
Salon.com
Jun. 19, 2007
At the age of 3, my older son withdrew, becoming sullen and cross-eyed overnight. He stopped speaking and lost the ability to follow directions, vanishing inside a body [...]
BY JOYCE RUSSELL
Northwest Indiana Times
Feb 3 2007
PORTAGE | Barbara Layton’s depression had become so severe she had only the energy to sit in a rocking chair all day and slowly rock back and forth.
The Hobart native and Portage resident had suffered from depression since she was a teen. At age 21, she attempted suicide. But [...]
The Baseball Player Who Used His Celebrity to Bring Mental Illness Out into the Open Royals and the Reich’ Reveals Fateful History of Nazi Princes
History News Network
Jan 15 2007
By Barron H. Lerner
Dr. Lerner is a historian and physician at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. This article draws on his new book, When Illness [...]
By Elise Kleeman Staff Writer
Pasadena Star-News
01/13/2007
PASADENA – Patricia Wedberg’s overwhelming depression arrived quietly and without cause.
In April, her family noticed she wasn’t herself and seemed tired and run down. In May, she lost her appetite. By the end of July she could no longer function at work. In mid-August she tried to take her own [...]
San Francisco Chronicle
Dec 24 2006
Telling a friend I was starting Kitty Dukakis’ new book sparked a disagreement. Was it rubbing alcohol she used to drink? Or vanilla extract? A happy debate: We were both right.
One might be tempted to say Dukakis self-medicated by treating her storied long-term depression with booze and pills. But she had [...]
Dec 7 2006
By Gemma Collins
Berkshire Co UK
A FRAIL pensioner who battled with manic depression for 60 years, died after undergoing electric shock therapy at Reading’s Prospect Park Hospital.
Violet Dixon, 81, who suffered from Bipolar affective disorder was given Electroconvulsive Therapy after becoming so depressed and run down that staff feared she would die.
Mrs Dixon who [...]
Ignored for decades, the twisted genius of Mervyn Peake is finally getting the attention it deserves
BY JOEL MEADOWS
Time
Dec 11, 2006
With a career encompassing 25 years that included five novels, a handful of plays and thousands of drawings, paintings and sketches, why isn’t Mervyn Peake a more celebrated English literary and artistic hero? A cult figure [...]
‘I don’t believe in dressing up reality’
Bernard Zuel
December 8, 2006
Syndey Morning Herald
To understand Lou Reed you could begin where he began: the works of American poet and author Delmore Schwartz and the novels of proto-grunge writer Hubert Selby jnr, author of Last Exit To Brooklyn and Requiem For A Dream.
By the time the Long Island-raised [...]
Nebraska TV
Thursday 12/07/06
Electroshock Therapy, now called Electroconvulsive Therapy or ECT, a surge of electricity to the brain, is still being used to treat severe depression. NTV talked to one patient who says he wouldn’t be alive today if it wasn’t for this controversial treatment.
“After my third suicide attempt, they mentioned ECT. It almost sounded like [...]
A beginning to forget
Mom writes a happy ending to battle with postpartum depression
BY BILL LOHMANN
TIMES-DISPATCH
Nov 26 2006
The birth of her only child is not even a blur to Carolyn Brink.
She doesn’t remember it at all.
In fact, she doesn’t remember the first few months of Zachary’s life. She was trapped in the depths of postpartum depression, [...]
25th April 2006
http://www.oxford.anglican.org
Diocese of Oxford
Jo Harries says that life has taught her that God is a God of surprises. ‘I often wonder what he has for me next’, she says. And no wonder – she had early dreams to be a medical missionary in Islamic countries, but instead became the wife of the Bishop of [...]
William Styron, 1925-2006
Unlikely bard of depression.
By Nell Casey
Slate
Nov. 7, 2006
When I first met William Styron, in the summer of 2001, he was frail, barely back on his feet after a brutal bout with depression. I met him and his wife, Rose, at a bookstore where we read from Unholy Ghost, a collection of essays on [...]
By Clare Raymond
Oct. 30, 2006
Daily Mirror
I WAS motionless, lying face down on the pavement. There was grit in my mouth and blood dripping from my hands and my bare feet.
It was the sight of blood that saved me. I knew then that I needed help – needed a hospital. As I levered myself up from [...]
