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Dec 20
2009

Global Orgasm for Peace?!

 

An organization calling itself Global Orgasm plans to launch a massive communal orgasm initiative called “Global Orgasm for Peace” on Monday, December 21 and are encouraging all who care to participate, to dedicate their orgasm to peace.

Yes, peace.

Dec 19
2009

Monica "Danger" Leon goes public about her depression beakdown, hospitalization and her escape

Monica "Danger" Leon from VH1's reality show For the Love of Ray J recently went public about her breakdown, her postpartum depression, her 5150 psychiatric hold in a Northern California hospital (after an incident involving her newborn daughter) and her subsequent escape from the institution.

 

Dec 18
2009

Prince Charles advocates St John's wort for depression.

Having already addressed the 2006 World Health Assembly in Geneva to argue for homeopathy and other natural treatments, Prince Charles is back at it, urging a return to remedies "rooted in ancient traditions that intuitively understood the need to maintain balance and harmony with our minds, bodies and the natural world. It seems to be that in our ceaseless rush to modernize, many tried and tested methods which have shown themselves be effective have been cast aside as old-fashioned or irrelevant to today’s needs."

Dec 15
2009

Tom Ford's Depression

Tom Ford the former Gucci/Yves St. Laurent designer has dealt with depression his whole life. "I have always struggled throughout my life with depression," Ford, now 48, says. "I've never made any of this public because…well…I'm not one to wear any of this on my sleeve. When someone would come into my office in the morning and ask me how I was I'd always go, 'I'm great! I'm great!'

“But I wasn't great."

"I started to sink . . .

 

Dec 11
2009

Lead poisoning causes Depression and Panic in adults and children.

A study released in this month’s edition of the Archives of General Psychiatry looked at 1,987 adults ages 20 through 39, finding that those with the highest blood lead levels were more than twice as likely to suffer a major depressive disorder and nearly five times as likely to suffer from panic disorders as those without elevated blood lead levels. The study is a rare look at how lead exposure can affect adults, as most research to date has been focused on the side effects of lead on children.