From a public health point of view, still the overwhelming problem is that people are not treated enough for depression; depression remains under treated.

One of things so bad about depression and bipolar disorder is that if you don't have prior awareness, you don't have any idea what hit you.

The complexities of what we are given in life are vast and beyond comprehension.

I had been simply treating water, settling on surviving and avoiding pain rather than being actively involved in seeking out life.

Every seventeen minutes in America, someone commits suicide. Mostly, I have been impressed by how little value our society puts on saving the lives of those who are in such despair as to want to end them. It is a societal illusion that suicide is rare. It is not.

From a public health point of view, still the overwhelming problem is that people are not treated enough for depression; depression remains under treated.

Moods are such an essential part of the substance of life, of one's notion of oneself, that even psychotic extremes in mood and behavior somehow can be seen as temporary, even understandable, reactions to what life has dealt.