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May is mental health awareness month and there’s an important new PBS documentary on depression premiering on May 21 (9pm ET), which is entitled “DEPRESSION: Out of the Shadows.” The film is 90 minutes long and is followed by a 30 minute panel discussion hosted by Jane Pauley, who was herself diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2001, which is titled “ONE STEP: Caring for Depression, with Jane Pauley.” The documentary and panel discussion are part of a multi-dimensional PBS project that includes a Web site and an educational outreach campaign that is being produced by the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and the YMCA of the USA.
With nearly 19 million Americans suffering from some form of depressive illness (according to the National Institute of Mental Health), depression, a serious and complex disorder with many presentations, cuts across all ages, races, genders, and socioeconomic groups. It is this […]

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If you are a parent of a child with a diagnosis of bipolar disorder or ADHD, you might be interested in looking at the PBS Frontline program called “The Medicated Child.” Since the program already aired, you might be able to catch a rerun by checking your local PBS station, but the easiest way to view it would be online, for free, at any time of the day or night. Just go to the Frontline website for the episode of the Medicated Child. There you will find a wealth of information and can watch the entire program. Frontline is one of the best programs on TV today and I recommend it highly.
Here are the first two paragraphs verbatim from the Introduction page of this show’s website:
In recent years, there’s been a dramatic increase in the number of children being diagnosed with serious psychiatric disorders and prescribed […]

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