Happy holidays, unless you're depressed
07:56AM Nov 16, 2008 in category 
by George W Frink
Vincent van Gogh: On the Threshold of Eternity
"Happy Thanksgiving," soon to be "Joy to the world," unless you have the holiday blues -- a sometimes debilitating and dangerous disease.
Holiday depression is so commonplace and so hard to recognize that the Mayo Clinic has a Web page devoted to it, and depression support Web sites have whole archives devoted to the problem.Almost anyone given to genuine, positive celebration of the holidays can help, since good fellowship and persistent friendly support help.
Thoughtful support is after all the reverse of the pervasive prejudice against mental illness which continuously afflicts the afflicted among us.
Frink
