Postpartum depression can bring 'frightening' thoughts
Friday, February 23, 2007-About one new mom in 10 will suffer from a form of depression known as postpartum depression.

'I woke up trembling'
Friday, February 23, 2007-'It's humiliating." That's how Greater Vancouver's Roman Catholic archbishop, Raymond Roussin, describes the shame he felt when he first admitted to himself and others he was depressed.

'There's a hopeless feeling involved in depression'
Friday, February 23, 2007-For 30 of his 40 years, Greg Fromson has struggled with depression.

'People are usually private about it'
Friday, February 23, 2007-I think it was more anxiety than depression. I was really anxious, and stuff.

'I went into therapy at 17 or 18'
Friday, February 23, 2007-I'm a performer. It's pretty common for people with bipolar disorder to be involved in the creative arts to some degree.

'It was art that really helped me'
Friday, February 23, 2007-I've been through therapy and I've been on medication.

Some societies consider mentally ill patients only as malingerers
Friday, February 23, 2007-Many non-Western cultures refuse to see depression as part of mental illness.

Dark days of SAD
Friday, February 23, 2007-Margaret Williams could do with a visit to the hairdresser.

Depressed seniors chronically undertreated
Friday, February 23, 2007-Seniors who are depressed - about one in 10 in the general population.

'A greyness over everything'
Friday, February 23, 2007-Last September Dr. Allan Young, a professor of psychiatry at the University of B.C. and co-director of the university's Institute of Mental Health, sat on the stage of the Orpheum Theatre and asked the Dalai Lama about depression.