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...breakdowns, hospitalizations and ongoing struggle with depression in her new book Beyond Blue: Surviving Depression & Anxiety and Making the Most of Bad Genes. "This will do wonders for my chances of future employment," she cracks. TIME writer Amy Sullivan talked with Borchard about the challenges of writing about mental illness (especially one's own) at the writer's home in Annapolis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Therese Borchard on Overcoming Depression | 1/15/2010 | See Source »

...proactive about getting a network of support, especially in those first days. And I would have placed more value on my own health, getting out of the house and working some, and getting enough sleep and rest. The brutal combination of isolation and sleep deprivation is a recipe for mental illness for new moms. There have been studies showing that in the first few weeks after giving birth, new mothers are seven times more likely to be hospitalized for mental illness as moms with older children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Therese Borchard on Overcoming Depression | 1/15/2010 | See Source »

Read a brief history of antidepressants. See a TIME graphic on mental-illness prevention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Therese Borchard on Overcoming Depression | 1/15/2010 | See Source »

Weird as it sounds, phobias are not that unusual. According to a study published in 2008 by the National Institute of Mental Health, 8.7% of people in the U.S. over the age of 18 have a specific phobia of some kind or other. It doesn't take much to set mine off. A swig from a water bottle can do it, or someone chewing gum. Every morning when I get on the subway, I scan the passengers like an air marshal looking for terrorists. At any moment, somebody could whip out a bagel or a danish. I do well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Overcoming Phobias Can Be So Daunting | 1/11/2010 | See Source »

...exports plenty of things that much of the world would gladly send back: the Golden Arches, Jerry Bruckheimer movies and Baywatch, to name a few. But in addition to the cultural flotsam that drives the rest of the world crazy, America is literally exporting its mental illnesses. "In teaching the rest of the world to think like us, we have been, for better and worse, homogenizing the way the world goes mad," writes journalist Ethan Watters. He traces how conditions first widely diagnosed in the U.S., such as anorexia and PTSD, have spread abroad "with the speed of contagious diseases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Skimmer | 1/11/2010 | See Source »

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