The Depression Chronicles
January 17, 2010 - 19:53
In addition to our ongoing political and arts/culture programming, we're developing a series of conversations about depression. I'd very much appreciate your suggestions as to topics and guests.
Please keep posting about your personal experiences and questions in the other topic, The Reality of Depression. And of course our members have the ability to start new topics, too. If possible, I'd like to keep this space pretty straightforward: ideas about different facets of depression we might discuss, and authors, doctors, experts, and other guests you'd like us to consider for the series.
Next post is some of the stuff I'm already sketching out.
Depression treatment through history
Is "American-style" depression unique?
Kinds of treatment, and how to choose
Who should be allowed to prescribe?
Special challenges of dual diagnosis
Why is anti-depressant use so widespread? Are they mis-prescribed?
Depression and social stigma: how far we've come, what we still need to accomplish
The giants of psychology/psychiatry - Freud, Jung etc - and their contributions, for better and for worse
Depression's role in compulsive behavior - eating, sex, cutting ...
Depression and gender, sexuality
Depression and the social class structure - the haves and have-nots
Treating depression on a budget
Okay, enough for now. Your ideas?