"You don't know how to life your life anymore and you start drowning in it." House of Anansi, 2012 That's the thing about depression, Lynn Crosbie explains in an interview with Shelagh Rogers on CBC Radio. She describes what happens when you really start looking at the world, with
At the back of the fourth floor of the library were the oversized books and, among them, I once discovered an assortment of medieval bestiaries. Sometimes I spent the entire day at the campus library on Sundays, and I would allow myself to browse and wander when I needed a
Susannah Cahalan knows how to tell a story. She started as a "copy kid" at the New York Post, sorting mail and making coffee, and when readers meet her on the page, she is a full-time writer there. Yet, the three story pitches she has just volleyed to her boss have
Little Brown & Company, 2012 Growing Up Brave begins with the author arriving to deliver a talk a couple of years ago, shocked that the modest attendance she had expected was a crowd of 700 people in a high school auditorium. The audience was comprised of parents, caregivers, guidance
A remarkable rise in children's emotional and behavioural problems? 2011; W.W. Norton & Company, 2012 A striking upsurge in the diagnoses of ADHD, childhood depression and bipolar disorder, autism? A significant increase in the number of children taking psychiatric medications? It's a mental health epidemic. Or, not. What
