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...sophomore outside hitter Julie Gosewisch, taking a 10-6 lead after a Hildebrandt kill. Harvard recovered to take a 12-11 lead after a Marist error, but the Red Foxes scored the last five points of the third game, winning 15-12 after a kill by junior middle blocker Leigh Shillington...
...fries!" squeals sophomore Leigh Jacobson, tearing into her family's living room with a Dairy Queen bag in hand and her sister Elizabeth in tow. The two girls can't stop giggling (about a cute boy), and Leigh rushes over to give her dog Annie a big nuzzle. "Lately," she reports, "I've been having a string of good days...
...afternoons haven't always been so carefree. About a year ago, Leigh began feeling "down in the dumps." A diligent student, she stopped doing her homework and, instead, slept or cried away her evenings. She drifted from her childhood friends and started hanging out with an older crowd. "It was total detachment," recalls her mother Joan. "We'd keep wondering if the old Leigh was still in there." And nothing--not favorite activities like shopping at the mall or sessions with a therapist--would coax...
Then last January, Leigh remembers sitting in algebra class and thinking: "Today is not a good day." That afternoon she swallowed 40 pills--20 aspirin and 20 Tylenol--and was hospitalized for eight days. After having clinical depression diagnosed, she was put on the antidepressant Effexor, among other medications. "Now, instead of the peaks and valleys," she says, "I just feel small waves of emotion. Things are a lot smoother...
...many as 20% of Leigh's Webster Groves classmates currently take prescription medication to treat depression and other psychiatric disorders, according to the school's social worker, Pat Ferrugia. Nationally, an estimated 1 in 20 children and adolescents suffers from depression. While doctors have long dispensed drugs like Ritalin to children and adolescents, teen prescriptions for antidepressants such as Prozac, Zoloft and Paxil have grown rapidly in recent years...