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*In an interview to promote her role in the new touring production of “Fela!,” Michelle Williams – one third of Destiny’s Child alongside Beyonce and Kelly Rowland – revealed that she has only recently emerged from years of suffering from moderate depression. Her dark cloud lifted thanks to exercise, therapy and positive thinking. “I’ve dealt with depression,” [...]
*Doctors have discovered that Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. is actually suffering from bipolar disorder, reported the Mayo Clinic on Monday. The Rochester, Minn.-based clinic specified his condition as Bipolar II, which is defined as periodic episodes of depression and hypomania, a less serious form of mania, says the Huffington Post. Bipolar II is a treatable [...]
*Jesse Jackson, Jr. is recovering from his bout with depression, says his father, the Reverend Jesse jackson. The politician has been in the hospital for weeks, receiving treatment at the Mayo Clinic. He took an unexpected hiatus from Congress in June; his office released a statement saying the congresswoman was being treated for a “mood [...]
*The wife of ailing U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. is finally talking. In an exclusive interview, Chicago City Council member Sandi Jackson dispelled rumors that her husband, who has been off the job for nearly eight weeks while being treated for depression, attempted suicide or was receiving help for alcohol and drug addiction. “No, no, [...]
*Shortly after confirming that she said yes to the preacher, actress Meagan Good decided that it’s time for her to keep it 100 with the youth and talk about her faith a little more openly. The actress, currently starring in “Think Like A Man,” recently told the Fearless Girls Club, she encouraged young girls, especially [...]
*One of music’s rising stars Wynter Gordon tells Chris Yandek of CYInterview.com in a lengthy conversation about the many struggles she went through and overcame to become a singer. The artist with the 2010 number 1 hit “Dirty Talk” and now top 10 dance hit “Buy My Love” talks about overcoming depression and how she [...]
*The producer of Vesta Williams’first single recently shared with us his last conversation with the late singer in which he says she revealed a struggle with depression and that she was taking medication to treat it. “She said that she was seeing a therapist because she had been depressed,” says David Crawford, a music industry [...]
*The Christian Post reports that depression was once a topic reserved for “other people.” It certainly was not something those in vocational ministry experienced. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that ministers rarely admitted that they were depressed. After all, weren’t these servants of God supposed to have their acts together? How could [...]
*We all know what it feels like to experience hopelessness to varying degrees. In fact, many people define hope as looking forward to something that they know that they will never get. Hopelessness is when you look out in front of you and you can’t see any possibility for improvement or change. Many of us [...]
*Once upon a time comedian Mark Curry was at the top of the ladder with his own sitcom, “Hangin’ with Mr. Cooper,” on ABC. You couldn’t get much higher than that for a black comedian back in the 1990s. Back when you were seeing Curry and Holly Robinson-Peete on a weekly basis it seemed like [...]
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