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\nThanks to the blog “We Must Not Think Too Much,”<\/a> I found the following Baltimore Examiner article by Karl B. Hill<\/a> about the Johns Hopkins Mood Disorder Symposium that I attended last Tuesday.
\nAgain, how thrilling it was for me to me at an event where so many prestigious names and prominent people could come together to teach and inform and tell stories.
\nWrites Hill:<\/p>\n

With a little help from Baltimore\u2019s Dorothy Hamill and actress Mariette Hartley, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine is trying to shed more light on mood disorders and bring them out of the closet.
\nHamill and Hartley offered frank, often dramatic testimonies of their battles with depression, alcoholism and bipolar disorder during the 22nd Annual Mood Disorder Symposium on Tuesday.
\nAfter her Olympic win in 1976, Hamill said, she stopped training in the morning and stayed up late, wined and dined companies and made late-night television appearances.
\n\u201cI was just kind of going through the motions,\u201d she said. \u201cI had no motivation. I didn\u2019t want to get on the ice again. I ate a lot,\u201d she said, recalling the beginning of her first major bout with depression. \u201cI\u2019ve since realized that severe depression runs in both sides of my family.\u201d
\nHamill and Hartley also said while growing up, they missed some of the warning signs of both their own illnesses and their parents\u2019 troubles.
\n\u201cI remember picking my mother up in the forsythia bushes \u2026 and bringing her into the house. I didn\u2019t know that was not normal,\u201d Hartley said. \u201cI knew one family that didn\u2019t drink, and they were terribly boring.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Hartley\u2019s grandfather John B. Watson was a Hopkins graduate and leading behavioral psychologist.
\nHe raised a family of troubled children, including Hartley\u2019s mother, whom Hartley described as \u201cemotionally impoverished.\u201d
\nSuicide was a common thread in her family.
\n\u201cMy father shot himself in the head in the room next to where my mother and I were eating breakfast,\u201d Hartley said. \u201cI was 23. I was on the verge of a major career, and my brain seized. Oh, I did a lot of work. I was in a lot of Westerns, which, of course, had a lot of gunfire, and I was lying on the ground in a fetal position. I didn\u2019t know what was happening.\u201d
\nMedicine provided many of the answers, including Hartley\u2019s post-traumatic stress disorder diagnosis.
\nBut major disorders such as bipolar disorder and depression remain a mystery in the very young, said Dr. John Walkup of Hopkins.
\n\u201cRepeatedly we hear adults describe the early onset of bipolar disorder by talking about what they remember from when they were kids,\u201d he said.
\nScience is just beginning to recognize some of these illnesses and how to effectively treat them.
\nHaving famous personalities speak frankly about these issues helps strip the stigma from mood disorders, said Dr. Ray DePaulo, of Hopkins. \u201cIt also destigmatizes these illnesses as you learn more about their origins.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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