On the message board of my interview with Katherine Stone, author of the blog, Postpartum Progress, a reader asked this: “Is it possible that the postpartum depression can turn into something that can last for so many years? I wish I knew for sure, but I believe what was diagnosed as postpartum for me was truly...

Catatonic depression is a kind of depression marked by a loss of motor skills or constant hyperactive motor activity. Persons typically suffer from extreme negativism and intense emotional pain. They may be unable to speak due to concentrated anxiety or imitate another person’s speech or movements. Because catatonic depression is accompanied by underlying neurological, psychiatric,...

You’ve heard it all at dinner parties, graduations, school fundraisers, and family cookouts … At least, I have: Psychiatry is a business that is medicating every normal syndrome out there: Too shy to ask a girl to prom? Take Zoloft for Social Anxiety Disorder…. Grieving the loss of a spouse a year after he passed away? Try...