PBS Does it again!! DEPRESSION: Out of the Shadows - SoberRecovery : Alcoholism Drug Addiction Help and Information

barb dwyer · 05-21-2008, 09:08 AM

... is going to air on Thursday night in Montana (the UM station) maybe y'all want to check local listings?

They always do such GOOD documentaries!

barb dwyer · 05-21-2008, 10:08 PM

DEPRESSION: Out of the Shadows . PBS

OMG Y'all !!! This was a Fantastic program!!!!!

I was late to work for watching it - didn't know it was two hours long - but whoa - the INFORMATION!!!

historyteach · 05-22-2008, 12:12 AM

Ummm.....Barb.....

Today's Thursday! :rof

Glad you enjoyed the show. I just watched the preview. It looked good.

Shalom!

barb dwyer · 05-22-2008, 01:23 AM

LOL!

teach - hopefully - the link goes to pbs.org and people can find out how to view it in their area.

I thought about everyone here while I was watching it.

barb dwyer · 05-22-2008, 01:25 AM

oh NO!

I went to the national pbs website and it was premeiering natiowide on may 21st -

BUT -

You can go into 'broadcast schedule' and there's a place where you put in your zip code - the alternative showings of the documentary pop up there.

like it's coming on five other times here in MT in the next week. odd hours, but it's coming on again.

Zencat · 05-22-2008, 09:34 AM

PBS rocks

Its taken me a long time to realize there is no 'magic bullet' that helped me out of my severe depression. Pushing past the reluctance was only over come when I started to work with caring others. Groups, groups and more groups started the ball rolling. From there treatment started on all fronts: diet, exercise, therapy, companionship, purpose and meds.

warrens · 05-22-2008, 10:12 AM

Didn't see the show, I think I missed it. I'll either watch the rebroadcast or find it to watch on the computer (I love broadband!).

A friend did tell me that Andrew Solomon was featured. He wrote one of the best books I've ever read on the subject: "The Noonday Demon." I cannot recommend it highly enough. It is beautifully written from the perspective of the sufferer. A Pulitzer Prize nominee. Read the reviews on Amazon.

Thanks for the post, Barb.

warren

justanothrdrunk · 05-22-2008, 10:28 AM

My better half said she was going to TiVo this. I hope she did.

StayinAlive · 05-22-2008, 08:07 PM

I watched it last night in HD. Really good. I appreciated how they covered all types of depression. It kept stressing that there is hope and people do recover. They actually use the terms recover, relapse and classify it as a disease even though it may be a learned behavior past on from parents or the result of situational influences. Calling it a disease makes it sound more treatable as well as distancing it from the "One flew Over the Koo Koo Nest" stereo typing of mental illness. The show confirmed to me what i have learned about my own depression. Meds help stabilize but retraining flawed thought patterns through cognitive types of therapy has been the bulk of the work for me.

Thank You PBS..........and Barb

shutterbug · 05-22-2008, 11:33 PM

i just went to the site and it says you can watch it on the site. I'll have to stay late and watch it on my work computer some night....as i tried on mine and can't make it work.

((((Warren)))) I'm still currently reading "The Noonday Demon" I've had it over a year and picked it back up again over the past month. I read as much as i can of it each night when i lay down (although i usually fall asleep reading it after 15-30 minutes. I'm 1/2 way through it and he definetly has a lot of good information in it....it's just a little dry for my taste so it's taking me longer to make my way through it than most.

Thanks again Barb for letting us know about this special. PBS definetly does rock when it comes to this kind of stuff. Yes....thank you PBS!

Jenna

barb dwyer · 05-22-2008, 11:36 PM

I *do* lub my PEEBZ ... LOL

There's several writers in there - LOL
I thought Solomon was quite candid and intimate in his sharing.
Must come with the territory or something.
Depression, I mean - not sharing.
Well, look at Hemmingway, huh? Steinbeck?
hmmm....

makes one do a double-think on many of the 'masters'
VanGogh, Caravaggio, Jackson Pollock, Dali, it goes on and on.
Winston Churchill .... great minds... great talents... come at a price, dothey?

I"m glad it's coming on again -
I always do better the second,
and even the third time I watch programming like this.

I almost fell out of my chair when they discussed that ADHD is often misdiagnosed
and confused with bi-polar disease!!!!

GOOD.

I'm glad y'all enjoyed it as much as I did.

barb dwyer · 05-23-2008, 12:18 AM

oh -

and am *I* the only one who was like

when the HEAD OF NIMH said -
(paraphrasing)

that were someone to come to him for a prescription with newly diagnosed depression - it was literally tossing a coin as far as medication went?

05-21-2008, 09:08 AM	#1 (permalink)
barb dwyer same planet...different world Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: butte mt Posts: 10,933 Blog Entries: 7	PBS Does it again!! DEPRESSION: Out of the Shadows ... is going to air on Thursday night in Montana (the UM station) maybe y'all want to check local listings? They always do such GOOD documentaries! __________________ Knowledge is knowing that tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in fruit salad.

05-21-2008, 10:08 PM	#2 (permalink)
barb dwyer same planet...different world Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: butte mt Posts: 10,933 Blog Entries: 7	DEPRESSION: Out of the Shadows . PBS OMG Y'all !!! This was a Fantastic program!!!!! I was late to work for watching it - didn't know it was two hours long - but whoa - the INFORMATION!!! __________________ Knowledge is knowing that tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in fruit salad.

05-22-2008, 12:12 AM	#3 (permalink)
historyteach To Life! Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Rhode Island Posts: 9,303	Ummm.....Barb..... Today's Thursday! :rof Glad you enjoyed the show. I just watched the preview. It looked good. Shalom! __________________ IMAGINE

05-22-2008, 01:23 AM	#4 (permalink)
barb dwyer same planet...different world Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: butte mt Posts: 10,933 Blog Entries: 7	LOL! teach - hopefully - the link goes to pbs.org and people can find out how to view it in their area. I thought about everyone here while I was watching it. __________________ Knowledge is knowing that tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in fruit salad.

05-22-2008, 01:25 AM	#5 (permalink)
barb dwyer same planet...different world Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: butte mt Posts: 10,933 Blog Entries: 7	oh NO! I went to the national pbs website and it was premeiering natiowide on may 21st - BUT - You can go into 'broadcast schedule' and there's a place where you put in your zip code - the alternative showings of the documentary pop up there. like it's coming on five other times here in MT in the next week. odd hours, but it's coming on again. __________________ Knowledge is knowing that tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in fruit salad.

05-22-2008, 09:34 AM	#6 (permalink)
Zencat ٩(-̮̮̃•̃)۶ Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Ventura Co. California USA Posts: 5,981 Blog Entries: 9	PBS rocks Its taken me a long time to realize there is no 'magic bullet' that helped me out of my severe depression. Pushing past the reluctance was only over come when I started to work with caring others. Groups, groups and more groups started the ball rolling. From there treatment started on all fronts: diet, exercise, therapy, companionship, purpose and meds. __________________ My ❀ Name ☯ Is ❤ Will G ☞ 禅 “The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.”― Leo Buscaglia

05-22-2008, 10:12 AM	#7 (permalink)
warrens Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: 49 degrees north Posts: 885	Didn't see the show, I think I missed it. I'll either watch the rebroadcast or find it to watch on the computer (I love broadband!). A friend did tell me that Andrew Solomon was featured. He wrote one of the best books I've ever read on the subject: "The Noonday Demon." I cannot recommend it highly enough. It is beautifully written from the perspective of the sufferer. A Pulitzer Prize nominee. Read the reviews on Amazon. Thanks for the post, Barb. warren

05-22-2008, 10:28 AM	#8 (permalink)
justanothrdrunk Retired Pro Drunk Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Saint Paul, MN Posts: 855	My better half said she was going to TiVo this. I hope she did.

05-22-2008, 08:07 PM	#9 (permalink)
StayinAlive Crazy Cat Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Left Coast Posts: 455	I watched it last night in HD. Really good. I appreciated how they covered all types of depression. It kept stressing that there is hope and people do recover. They actually use the terms recover, relapse and classify it as a disease even though it may be a learned behavior past on from parents or the result of situational influences. Calling it a disease makes it sound more treatable as well as distancing it from the "One flew Over the Koo Koo Nest" stereo typing of mental illness. The show confirmed to me what i have learned about my own depression. Meds help stabilize but retraining flawed thought patterns through cognitive types of therapy has been the bulk of the work for me. Thank You PBS..........and Barb __________________ never stop growing

05-22-2008, 11:33 PM	#10 (permalink)
shutterbug A picture's worth a 1000 words Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: With any luck, I'm lost in a view finder Posts: 2,947 Blog Entries: 5	i just went to the site and it says you can watch it on the site. I'll have to stay late and watch it on my work computer some night....as i tried on mine and can't make it work. ((((Warren)))) I'm still currently reading "The Noonday Demon" I've had it over a year and picked it back up again over the past month. I read as much as i can of it each night when i lay down (although i usually fall asleep reading it after 15-30 minutes. I'm 1/2 way through it and he definetly has a lot of good information in it....it's just a little dry for my taste so it's taking me longer to make my way through it than most. Thanks again Barb for letting us know about this special. PBS definetly does rock when it comes to this kind of stuff. Yes....thank you PBS! Jenna __________________ I'M FINE!! Fanatically Insecure Neuratic & Emotional Bipolar/Depression support: 1-800-950-NAMI(6264).

05-22-2008, 11:36 PM	#11 (permalink)
barb dwyer same planet...different world Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: butte mt Posts: 10,933 Blog Entries: 7	I do lub my PEEBZ ... LOL There's several writers in there - LOL I thought Solomon was quite candid and intimate in his sharing. Must come with the territory or something. Depression, I mean - not sharing. Well, look at Hemmingway, huh? Steinbeck? hmmm.... makes one do a double-think on many of the 'masters' VanGogh, Caravaggio, Jackson Pollock, Dali, it goes on and on. Winston Churchill .... great minds... great talents... come at a price, dothey? I"m glad it's coming on again - I always do better the second, and even the third time I watch programming like this. I almost fell out of my chair when they discussed that ADHD is often misdiagnosed and confused with bi-polar disease!!!! GOOD. I'm glad y'all enjoyed it as much as I did. __________________ Knowledge is knowing that tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in fruit salad.

05-23-2008, 12:18 AM	#12 (permalink)
barb dwyer same planet...different world Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: butte mt Posts: 10,933 Blog Entries: 7	oh - and am I the only one who was like when the HEAD OF NIMH said - (paraphrasing) that were someone to come to him for a prescription with newly diagnosed depression - it was literally tossing a coin as far as medication went? __________________ Knowledge is knowing that tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in fruit salad. Last edited by barb dwyer; 05-23-2008 at 12:44 AM.

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