(Image by Stephen Webster/Wall Street Journal) Health Journal columnist Melinda Beck penned an amazingly accurate and helpful article in the Wall Street Journal about the self-criticism that so often accompanies depression and anxiety. Not only was I delighted that she approached such a difficult and complicated aspect of our illness with compassion and insight, but I was...

It with interest that I read the new study by scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the University of Pittsburgh that suggest that depression can increase the risk of heart problems later in life, even in children. We would all like to think that kids are more resilient than that....