Depression

DMACC economics prof says failed bailout ‘great day for democracy’

Des Moines Area Community College professor Mark Maggio says desperate Wall Streeters looking for a $700 billion bailout recall the story of the boy who cried wolf.
The bailout package, pounded from the political left and right, failed in Congress Monday.
“I thought yesterday was a great day for American democracy,” says Maggio, who teaches economics at [...]

Pregnancy, Depression and ‘Please Don’t Use My Name’

In the past 15 years, the three friends estimate they’ve come together over dining room and restaurant tables more than 1,000 times. They’ve shared joy and hardships that have included five marriages, two divorces, eight family deaths, six pregnancies, a stillbirth, four live births, a bankruptcy, an early miscarriage and an attempted suicide. Not one [...]

Blacks Feel Added Stigma in Seeking Help for Depression

It dawned on John Campbell Jr. one day that he had stopped smiling.

Feelings of gloom and anger had shadowed him for some time. He found his anger intensifying after cancer ended his mother’s life at age 43, his marriage failed, and an 11-year-old daughter and adult step-son died. As if all that were not enough, [...]

Blacks Feel Added Stigma in Seeking Help for Depression

It dawned on John Campbell Jr. one day that he had stopped smiling.

Feelings of gloom and anger had shadowed him for some time. He found his anger intensifying after cancer ended his mother’s life at age 43, his marriage failed, and an 11-year-old daughter and adult step-son died. As if all that were not enough, [...]