Living Crazy

So if 18.8 million Americans suffer from depression, which is the figure from NIMH, and there are approximately 300 million in the population, then the average figure is 6.27% of the population.

.This has been a very bad year. As I sat at my computer thinking and reading the thoughts of others, I realized how much I really didn't give a rats ass about anything. Wow, it really hit me hard.

A new study of children undergoing radiology treatment at one U.S. hospital points to what seems to be a little-recognized form of deliberate self-injury where kids embed objects ranging from glass to needles to wood under their own skin.

What song would best summarize the Iraq War?

As the end of Wilson's second term approached, the U.S. economy sunk into an economic depression. Wilson had led America through WWI, but he also increased the size of government and accumulated a huge debt in the process.

"For eighteen months unemployment has been spreading poverty and acute suffering through industrial and agricultural areas alike. No one yet knows when the present economic disaster will be brought to an end.

Researchers find psilocybin improved the anxiety and depression of terminal cancer patients for up to six months. The study is considered a first step in restoring the hallucinogen's respectability.

On the eve of the Depression, Andrew Mellon, President Hoover's Treasury secretary, said that rising unemployment would be good for the nation because it would "purge the rottenness out of the system" and force people "to work harder, live a more moral life." Few would dare utter …

Unemployment was so high that husbands, forced to leave their homes to search for work elsewhere, lived in shacks. Entire families lived in make-do shelters, cars, tents or whatever else they could pull together. Many people traveled west, on bad roads, seeking a new life.

The nightmare of the right in America edges increasingly close to dragging the country past the point of no return, over the cliff of violent implosion. At this point, there is already little that is missing save the jackboots and broken glass.

Three Pakistan cricket players have been questioned by police over claims they were involved in a betting scam, the team manager has said. Yawar Saeed said cricket was not "institutionally corrupt" in Pakistan, and the claims were unproven.

Recreational drug users call it "Special K." Large, frequent doses of the anesthetic ketamine can give users vivid hallucinations, but a recently published study hints that the drug may have a medicinal use: temporarily treating depression brought on by bipolar disorder.

I remember that night, years ago. It wasn't quite winter yet but the days were very short and I was feeling it. I had already abandoned my passion of horseback riding; I just couldn't get myself out of bed when I should have been tending to my horse.