Most men dealing with depression have stories that are very similar, waking with a heavy head even in the happiest of times. A bad day is described as one in which you can’t get out of bed and it fee

I have battled major depression since age thirteen. It may be even further back than that, that is my first memory of "feeling different". I am now middle-aged.

I am a 53-year old man who has been declared officially disabled for almost a decade now. I never really cared much for labels, but if our society deems it important for governmental reasons to put one on me, then, indeed, that's me.

Thousands of people every year go into a sort of depression, once fall comes. Thousands more suffer from jet lag which is the curse of modern day travel. These two problems are closely related in that their causes are similar. There is one solution for both problems and that is the use of a sad light box or lamp.

Looking out the window early this morning it was evident that the world in the San Francisco Bay Area has returned to "normal." At least on the outside it looked that way. Traffic was backed up bumper to bumper by 6:15 a.m. and I was heading off to work at the suicide prevention hotline, where life for most callers continues to be anything but normal. The days after the Holidays are a let-down for many people and many can't get themselves out of the pit by Spring time. It's when everyone seems to break free from the cold weather and wake up from the hibernation stage that lonely and depressed people tend to do the opposite: fall even deeper into a stage of sadness.

Looking back, it is difficult to believe that it has been nearly thirty five years since I first walked into a psychologist's office to see if there might be something wrong with me. I felt very different and out of sorts. I was in my twenties. It was at the counseling center at my local university in southern Ms.