Thank you to Laurie Sue Brockway, my editor at Everyday Health for her interview of me about my new blog, “Sanity Break.” When did depression and bipolar begin in your life? I really believe that I emerged from my mother’s womb with a worrying and depressed brain. It’s been there since the beginning. I was...

I’m excited to announce a new series of videos produced by Everyday Health on managing depression. You get to see a closeup view of my family, my work, my home … um, pretty much everything. Pass them along to people who you think might benefit from some of the topics. Thanks. Click here for the...

A new study by researchers at Washington School of Medicine in St. Louis offers new insight into why vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) is so successful in treating persons with severe depression. VSN involves inserting a device into the upper left area of the chest to stimulate the left vagus nerve, which originates in the brain....

I’ve always found it curious that more suicides happen in the spring than in any other season. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Center for Health Statistics, suicide rates are lowest in the winter months and highest in the springtime. What’s so bad about April and May? The sun...

I had been on the drug Zyprexa (olanzapine) for four weeks and had already gained 15 pounds which, you know, didn’t help my depression. After going to a wedding and catching a side view of myself, I called my doctor and told him that my name was now Violet Beauregarde, the gum chewer in “Charlie and...