As the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators moved to Washington on Thursday and swarmed outside the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, President Obama was at the other end of Lafayette Square trying to align himself with the swelling protest movement. “I think it expresses the frustrations that the American people feel, that we had the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression, huge collateral damage all throughout the country, all across Main Street, and yet you’re still seeing some of the same folks who acted irresponsibly trying to fight efforts to crack down on abusive practices that got us into this problem in the first place,” the president said at a news conference in the East Room. Read full article > >

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As the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators moved to Washington on Thursday and swarmed outside the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, President Obama was at the other end of Lafayette Square trying to align himself with the swelling protest movement. “I think it expresses the frustrations that the American people feel, that we had the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression, huge collateral damage all throughout the country, all across Main Street, and yet you’re still seeing some of the same folks who acted irresponsibly trying to fight efforts to crack down on abusive practices that got us into this problem in the first place,” the president said at a news conference in the East Room. Read full article > >

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Doctors say the current generation of students has a greater risk of anxiety and depression than previous ones, amid rising debt and job uncertainty.

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Women who drink two or more cups of coffee a day are less likely to experience depression, researchers have discovered.

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Coffee ‘may prevent depression’

Wade Mainer, 104, a show-stopping banjo player from North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains who was a vital link in the evolution of bluegrass music, died Sept. 12 at his home in Flint, Mich. He had congestive heart failure. The death was confirmed by radio host and Mainer biographer Dick Spottswood. Mr. Mainer , widely known as the grandfather of bluegrass, was one of the last of a generation of rural string-band musicians who recorded during the Depression. Because of his prolific career on radio, disc and stage, he earned an invitation to the White House to play for President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Read full article > >

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Wade Mainer, banjo pioneer, dies at 104

Recent events bear an intriguing resemblance to 1937-38, and the recession within a Depression, which galvanized policy makers who had grown complacent about the recovery.

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Common Sense: Aftershock to Economy Has a Precedent That Holds Lessons

Women who have a history of depression may also be at increased risk of suffering a stroke, US researchers suggest.

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Depression linked to stroke risk

Why springtime can be bad for depression sufferers

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Comedian Ruby Wax talks to Matthew Stadlen about studying at Oxford, escaping from a Swiss charm school. her struggle with depression and how “drink and Zulus” led to her getting a break in television.

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The pug-nosed kid who became America’s Boy in tear-jerker films of the Great Depression flourished as an adult in television and modern pictures.

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Jackie Cooper, Film and Television Actor, Dies at 88

The suicide rate increased 3 percent during the 2001 recession and has generally ridden the tide of the economy since the Great Depression, a comprehensive government analysis found.

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Study Ties Suicide Rate in Work Force to Economy

Jason MerrittGETTY IMAGESCatherine Zeta-Jones.Catherine Zeta-Jones’ public revelation that she checked into a mental health facility for treatment of Bipolar II Disorder is shining a light on the form of manic depression. While Zeta-Jones has not made a personal statement about her Bipolar II Disorder, a form less severe than Bipolar I, other celebrities diagnosed have spoken publicly about their experiences.

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BRETTON WOODS, N.H. — Sixty-seven years ago at the Mount Washington Resort here, the world’s financial leaders gathered to try to come up with a new order for the world economy to replace the one shattered by the Great Depression and World War II.

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After crisis, money leaders regroup

Economic problems may be fuelling a rise in depression in England, it has been suggested.

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Money woe ‘fuels depression rise’

The Australian poet Les Murray offers a memoir of his depression, and a new book of verse.

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Les Murray and the Poetry of Depression