Laurie Michaelson had heard, vaguely, about a condition called postpartum depression: she wondered, a few times, if this could relate to this strange, numb, unhappy sense of herself that she was presently experiencing. But postpartum depression was, she believed, something that occurred just after the
This country’s health problems are not going to be solved by throwing big money into cures with a pittance to prevention, by producing more doctors, hospitals and drugs. We’d do better to get people to change their health habits and the unhealthy environments in which
“It’s a fact that in almost every clinical situation and almost every organized health care system, women are diagnosed as depressed three times as frequently as are men. This is a fact not only in this country, but in virtually every health care system around
Self-care conferences drew 300 health professionals to New York City and 20 to Sun Valley, Idaho, this Fall. I attended both and left convinced that lay care is universal and that lay people should get more training if they want it. The New York conference
Imagine a phone pressed against your right ear. We’ll call it the outside phone because it blares messages, demands, oughts and shoulds from the outside. “You ought to get up,” it says. “You should wash the floor. Take the 9:05 train. Go running. Hurry up
