Grammy Award-winning pop icon Rick Springfield reveals his lifelong battle with depression in a new memoir Late Late At Night. He calls his depression Mr. D and talks about him like its another person that’s been with him his whole life. On Good Morning America he talks very openly about his own suicide attempt and with all the teen suicides lately he wants to spread the message that life will change and get better so give it a year or two.
Depression? It’s just the new trendy illness! An article from U.K. Daily Mail’s columnist Janet Street Porter has left me in complete shock at its uneducated and ignorant opinions on depression This type of irresponsible journalism could potentially set the mental health anti-stigma movement back a few decades and lead sufferers to feel worse than they already do.
Canadian artist, Charmaine Loverin is preparing for what she hopes will be a major shift in conversations about child sexual abuse offenders. She dares to say that since abuse starts with the abuser, if treatment was available, child sexual abuse can be stopped. In what is sure to be a widely discussed book, “Loving My Sinner, Hating His Sin” Loverin takes on that challenge and shares her own story of being sexually abused and the process of charging and ultimately forgiving her father.
We all know Mackenzie Phillips first told her story of incest sexual abuse from her father on Oprah as her book High On Arrival was about to be released. Following that appearance she appeared on other shows and also returned to Oprah called Shattering the Secrecy of Incest // Mackenzie Phillips’ Follow-Up. Here are some interviews in case you missed them.
Howie Mandel tweeted he will be in Toronto at Indigo Books (Eaton Center) on Dec. 4th to sign copies of his book, Here’s The Deal, Don’t Touch Me Dec 4th 7pm, Indigo Books in Eaton Center, Toronto Howie Mandel Signing/Reading/Interview Join us for a book signing with Howie Mandel as…
In her book, Miss America By Day – Lessons Learned from Ultimate Betrayals and Unconditional Love, Marilyn Van Derbur, a former Miss America, tells the story of how she was sexually violated by her prominent, millionaire father from age 5 to age 18. She was 53 years old before she was able to speak the words in public, “I am an incest survivor.”