- More than the blues
Recognizing a mental illness
Full Story
- Get up, get going
Finding the motivation to get moving, to get better, or even to get out of bed
Full Story
- AT THE HELM
Sharing Anchor’s vision for hope
By Steve Harrington
“You’ve come a long way, baby!” That advertising slogan is certainly true of mental health treatment…
- MAILBAG
“I just want to congratulate you on your wonderful new magazine, Anchor. I read it from cover to cover.”
- RESEARCH
New studies into depression
- HEALTHY LIVING
Is depression causing stress, or vice versa?
By Cynthia Landers, RN, PhD
Does life present many changes for you that cause stress and then depression? If so, you are not alone. Research shows there is a relationship between stress and depression…
- MEN
The change of life: Male menopause may be a result of decreased testosterone
By Paul Forsyth
It’s widely recognized that as women approach their late 40s or early-to-mid-50s, they begin to go through the “change of life”…Increasingly though, debate is raging over whether there’s a male equivalent to menopaus…and whether men with abnormally low levels of testosterone should also be on hormone replacement therapy…
- TEENS
Teens helping teens: Peer support is an effective tool to help young people
By Mary Medland
Ask the parents of a teenager about the power of peer pressure on their child and they’ll agree that it’s there…so it should come as no surprise that putting depressed teenagers together in peer support groups—monitored by one or more mental health care professionals—can be a strong tool for recovery…
Full Story
- WORKPLACE
Taking time to heal: Employers’ obligations for helping you through depression
By Gord Howard
It may have been the two-and-a-half hour commute to work and back every workday, five days a week, that pushed Denis Cotter over the edge…
- WOMEN
Breaking through: Battling depression in the face of cancer
By Lorra Garrick
When she was first diagnosed with breast cancer 11 years ago, Susan Friedman was optimistic about her prognosis…but it wasn’t until after she finished with chemotherapy and radiation…that she found herself slipping deep into depression…
- CHILDREN
Depression, medication, and kids
By Brad Peters
For parents, there is no more trying and difficult time than dealing with a sick child. This is especially true when the illness in question is psychological in nature…
- ON CALL
By Michael Gitlin, MD
Dear Dr Gitlin: My mother and some of her relatives suffer from depression…can it be passed on to family members through hereditary…
Full Story
- NEWS
Stories from around the world
- A LIFE WORTH LIVING
Fighting stigma in the workplace
By Linda Andrisan
When people hear the words “mental illness,” many associate it with violence…
- BOOKSHELF
Books for consumers, families, and professionals
- BEEN THERE
‘I am not my diagnosis’
By Carol L. Skolnick
The darkness began by the time I was 3 years old, when suddenly my sheer existence seemed to set off a rage fest in my stressed, depressed, often bedridden mother…
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