The Duchess Digest: Going Bi-Coastal

I’ve grown up largely in an age of wealth and prosperity. Fancy cars, cellphones, vacations, houses, clothing and all the nice dinners I could ever want have made up the majority of my life’s experiences. Sure I worried about paying the rent or the mortgage from time to time, but there’s always been more then [...]

Madoff Investers Offer Lessons We Can Learn From

Chances are you know the story by now. Bernie Madoff (pronounced Made-off) the high-flying financier turned diabolical criminal was sent to jail last week and that is probably where he will remain for the rest of his life.
His crimes? Well many in the eyes of the law, but just one crime that will live on [...]

Keith Ablow: Handling Depression at Work

“As much as everyone talks about layoffs, I guess I should feel as if I’m one of the lucky ones, but I’m all the more irritable because they are piling more projects on me at work. The threat of losing a job hangs over all of us who are left, so of course we keep [...]

Opening Our Hearts After Loss

No one gets through a full and productive life without loss. Yet losing someone to death is a subject we all shy away from until it hits us between the eyes. The pain we feel paralyzes us and we are often ill-equipped to know how to survive the emptiness.
We shield our hearts. Somewhere deep within [...]

Divorced—and Depressed about Dating

Q:  “My recent breakup has devastated me. It’s been over a year now, and my girlfriends all encourage me to “get back on the horse,” so to speak. Seriously, I can’t even imagine getting into another relationship. At the same time, I dread spending the rest of my life alone. What’s wrong with me?” —Eliza [...]

Single Moms and the Holiday Blues: Lifting Your Spirits

Mistletoe? What mistletoe? Some single moms maybe spending the upcoming holidays alone due to custody arrangements.And it may be hard-well for some, impossible-to be cheery, while visions of the perfect Norman Rockwell familyinfiltrate our consciousness.
SMW asked Alaina Sheer, one of SingleMindedWomen.com’s contributors to share with us how she survives the holidays as a single mom:
This [...]

No Way to Run a Depression

When I heard on “Black Friday”—the current name for the big shopping event on the Friday after Thanksgiving—that a Wal-Mart employee had been trampled to death by a crazed mob hoping to be one of the lucky few to get $500 off on a flat screen high definition TV, I thought: This is no way [...]

Danielle Steel: A Good Read—and a Great Woman

For a couple of decades now, bestselling author Danielle Steel has been churning out passion-filled sagas of the rich and famous. Turns out she is also a passionate advocate of the homeless.
In a Newsweek essay, Steel writes nakedly and poignantly about the suicide ten years ago of her nineteen-year-old son, Nick, who suffered [...]

Have Women Been Sold on Depression?

It’s safe to say that virtually all of us know at least one woman who is being treated for depression. In his intriguing book, Prozac on the Couch: Prescribing Gender in the Era of Wonder Drugs, author Jonathan Metzl, MD, PhD offers some ideas on why that could be the case.

The book first came out [...]

Depression: Are Antidepressants the Answer for Everyone?

Q. I have so many friends who are being treated for depression. Is it really that common? And are antidepressants the best way to manage it? What other depression treatment options are there?

A. Studies have long documented that major depressive disorders occur more frequently in women. The “why” of this is often explored in research [...]

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