Guest Bloggers
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Louisa Benton
Executive Director
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Steven P. Roose, M.D
Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
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Huda Akil, Ph.D
DTF Chair
Why We Walk – The Owen Family,
July 28, 2017
Alicia Owen is a Special Ed teacher at Southampton Elementary School and a mother of three. She and her whole family will participate in the Walk of HOPE + 5K Run to Defeat Depression on Saturday, August 5 in Southampton.
They walk because after dealing with depression in their own home, they want to raise awareness in the local community.
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Psychology Today Blog: Depression in Children,
February 15, 2016
Guest blogger David Brent, M.D., reveals what we know and what we don’t know.
How common is depression in children? Depression occurs in 1-2% of children before puberty.You can even see depression in preschoolers, although it’s much less common. That usually occurs when there’s a strong family history of depression. After puberty the rate of depression increases significantly to about 3-8%, with a higher rate in girls than boys. One in five teens will have experienced a depressive disorder by the time they reach adulthood.
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HDRF at the Watermill Center’s Scaler Lecture Series,
October 9, 2015
Please watch HDRF’s Founder & Chair Audrey Gruss present at the Watermill Center’s Scaler Lecture Series.
The Watermill Center: Scaler Lecture Series – Summer 2015 from HDRF on Vimeo.
Founder’s Introduction,
June 24, 2015
My mother Hope suffered from depression for most of her late adult life. My sisters, father and I witnessed decades of misdiagnosis, trials of medication, troublesome side effects and the psychic pain and life-sapping loss of energy that is a mark of clinical depression.
When she passed away in December 2005, I vowed that I would do all in my power to help conquer this dreaded illness. That was the spark that started HDRF and led me on an incredible journey.
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