Depressed Relationship
Dear Dr. Ryan, I met a guy a couple months ago and we hit it off right from the word go so we began dating shortly after and it’s been nearly 10 months since. We’ve…
S-Town: A Podcast for Our Mental Health
S-Town, a podcast produced by Serial and This American Life takes an up close and personal look at the life of John B. McLemore. To those of us who were dedicated listeners of the first…
Depressed Messages from a Struggling Soldier
Dear Dr. Ryan, A year ago, my youngest sister’s husband was discharged from the Army for medical issues pertaining to depression. He has been diagnosed manic depressive which he receives medication for. Occasionally, he sees…
Depression Cutting In
Dear Dr. Ryan, I’ve never been happy. There have been times in my life when things were good, but there was that feeling of insecurity that something would soon go wrong, and I would become…
Friend in a Funk
Dear Dr. Ryan, In the past year I’ve seen a noticeable change in my friend Darla’s mood. Darla and I worked together at a coffee shop one summer when I was in between advertising gigs.…