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    Lindsay S. Wheeler
    • Feb 5, 2019
    • 6 min

    What I Learned When I Dropped the Depression Label, Owned the Bipolar One, Took Medication, and Stop

    When I first told my parents I was depressed, the second thing that followed was "I'm so sorry." When I went to pop my first antidepressant, all I knew was that I should take it in the bathroom, not at the table. It was my last resort, that pill, and one for which I had to unlearn shame. Lucky for me, the shame subsided at the thought of how silly it is to hide something that could just as easily have been a blood pressure medication. I am optimistic about what seems to be a

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    Lindsay S. Wheeler
    • Jun 8, 2017
    • 4 min

    Breaking Silence on the Childhood Depression Epidemic

    A new study published in the Translational Psychiatry journal suggests that mental illness may affect children in earlier stages of development than previously thought. Ariana Enjung Cha (The Washington Post) reports that after interviewing over 100,000 subjects, researchers found that “depression in many children appears to start as early as age 11.” Parents, many of whom already face concern over the risk of adolescent suicide, now have reason to also monitor risk factors i

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