{"id":141,"date":"2007-03-13T11:10:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-13T11:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beyondblue\/2007\/03\/rosie-my-new-best-friend.html"},"modified":"2007-03-13T11:10:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-13T11:10:00","slug":"rosie-my-new-best-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/2007\/03\/rosie-my-new-best-friend.html","title":{"rendered":"Rosie, My New Best Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always loved <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,258096,00.html\">Rosie O&#8217;Donnell<\/a> for her courteous and tactful wit. But now I want to hang photos of this comedian all over my desk because, as a fellow depressive gone public, she has just made my job of educating the public on mental health issues so much easier. <\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s not to love about a celebrity who hangs herself upside down for 15 to 30 minutes a day to jumpstart her neurotransmitters (along with yoga and antidepressants)? <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Inversion_therapy\">Inversion therapy<\/a>&#8211;hanging upside down or at an inverted angle in order to use gravity to decompress body joints&#8211;has been used to relieve back pain as early as 400 B.C. But seeing Rosie demonstrate it for her audience, reading a teleprompter from a swing, made me laugh out loud at all the ways&#8211;some quite creative&#8211;we depressive use to treat our mood disorders.<\/p>\n<p>I have tried and use almost every possible technique to fight the ongoing biochemical and neurological war inside my brain&#8211;from magnets on my ears to <a href=\"http:\/\/backandneck.about.com\/od\/osteopathyfaqs\/f\/cranialsacralth.htm\">cranial sacral therapy<\/a>, from Chinese herbs to acupuncture, from yoga to running, from fish oil to cognitive-behavioral therapy, from a protein diet to meditation tapes, from 12-step groups to gratitude lists&#8211;but I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;d hang upside down in front of a camera. Because, with my luck, something embarrassing would spill out of my pockets (like the time a priest gave me a ride to the train station, and a penis straw from the bachelorette party the night before fell out of my purse with the train schedule.<\/p>\n<p>Rosie gets added to my growing list of mental-health heroes: Art Buchwald, Robin Williams, Patty Duke, Drew Barrymore, William Styron, Mike Wallace, Kay Redfield Jamison, Abraham Lincoln, and Winston Churchill.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=Y2NaxIZK28o\">Click here to see the video of her on YouTube<\/a>. 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