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...feelings, good or bad, are at the cellular level no more than a complex interaction of chemicals and electrical activity. Depression represents an imbalance in that interaction, one that can kill just as directly as more obviously physical ailments. Each year in the U.S., an estimated 30,000 people commit suicide, with the vast majority of cases attributable to depression. But depression's physical toll goes far beyond the number of people who take their own life and even beyond the impact on depressed people's relationships and productivity (which costs the U.S. economy some $50 billion a year...
...They come in under duress," says Josephs, a psychology professor at Adelphi University in Garden City, N.Y. "But they don't commit. What they really want is to have everything on their own terms...
When patients commit to some form of therapy, even the doctors can be surprised. A study conducted by Gunderson and colleagues at Harvard, Yale, Columbia and Brown looked at borderline, avoidant, obsessive-compulsive and schizotypal patients and found that, after two years of treatments, including medication, psychotherapy, DBT or group and family therapy, they showed a 40% improvement. "That's big news," says Gunderson. "Nobody would have thought we'd get better than...
...students are squaring off in court over the issue. A group primarily composed of inner-city students, assigned to alternative education under a 2002 state law designed to improve school safety, has filed a class action to overturn it. The sweeping statute requires alternative placements for those who commit a range of offenses--whether in school or not--after they have successfully completed sentences in juvenile-detention facilities. The students say the rule punishes those whose misdeeds weren't violent, as well as those who did nothing wrong at school. The plaintiffs also fear they will be banished permanently...
...wishy-washiness might be excusable if Sterling did not commit the first sin of politics and TV: it's dull, with all of West Wing's sanctimony and none of its humor and character. On the other hand, CBS's Queens Supreme (Fridays, 10 p.m. E.T.), starring former West Wing regular Oliver Platt as a colorful, politically embattled judge, has humor and character to a fault. No lack of excitement here: in the three episodes sent to critics, Platt has a gun pointed at him three times and sings show tunes twice. All this action and some snappy dialogue bring...