In the Mix: On the Edge--Dealing with Depression (excerpt)

In the Mix is the Emmy award winning PBS documentary series for teens.

This program, co-hosted by popular music group Third Eye Blind, covers teen angst from normal blues, to clinical depression, to suicide and shows when, how, and where teens can get help. In the Mix also visits Pierre, South Dakota, a small town with the highest per capita rate of teen suicide in the United States. Teen activists in Pierre have joined together to institute a program to help other teens deal with depression and prevent suicide in their community. Most importantly, the program breaks down the social stigma of depression that leads many teens to deny and hide their problem. Through information and dialogue teens will get the facts and be better able to help themselves and their peers battle this growing national epidemic.
Winner of the 1999 National Mental Health Associations Award for journalistic excellence.
"On the Edge provides counselors with an opportunity to lead a discussion as a preventive strategy: It should be used in every middle and high school." --Nancy Perry, Executive Director, American School Counselor Association

Related episodes: Living with Change ("The New Normal" Series) (http://www.pbs.org/inthemix/newnormal/program.html); Dealing with Death (http://www.pbs.org/inthemix/shows/show_death.html); 9-11: Looking Back, Moving Forward (http://www.pbs.org/inthemix/shows/show_9-11.html); Drug Abuse: Altered States (http://www.pbs.org/inthemix/shows/show_drug_abuse.html); Ecstasy (http://www.pbs.org/inthemix/shows/show_ecstasy.html); Alcohol: What You Don't Know (http://www.pbs.org/inthemix/shows/show_alcohol.html)

This program and others from the In the Mix series are available as DVDs, with performance rights and discussion guides, for educational use. Many are closed captioned and have Spanish subtitles.
For more information or to order a copy of this episode, please visit www.inthemix.org or call 800-343-5540

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[cybershockandifrit]

This doesn't help. I still want to die.

[AlphaMistafiedOmega]

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