Veteran news reporter, Mike Wallace, died on Saturday at aged 93. He had a long and distinguished career and came out about his struggle with clinical depression some years ago. Embedded below is the interview with psychiatrist Dr. Borenstein on his experience of depression which included a suicide attempt.
Wallace encourages people to see their psychiatrist and get the help they need and overcome the stigma. It is a very interesting interview and the psychiatrist shares an anecdote in the transcript a quote from one of the greatest presidents in American history, Abraham Lincoln, who also struggled with clinical depression and thoughts of suicide. In one of his diary entries, Lincoln wrote:
I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth. Whether I shall ever be better, I cannot tell. I awfully forebode, I shall not.
Keep hope alive! And thank you Mike Wallace for your service to journalism.
Wallace encourages people to see their psychiatrist and get the help they need and overcome the stigma. It is a very interesting interview and the psychiatrist shares an anecdote in the transcript a quote from one of the greatest presidents in American history, Abraham Lincoln, who also struggled with clinical depression and thoughts of suicide. In one of his diary entries, Lincoln wrote:
I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth. Whether I shall ever be better, I cannot tell. I awfully forebode, I shall not.
Keep hope alive! And thank you Mike Wallace for your service to journalism.
Watch Mike Wallace: Depression on PBS. See more from Healthy Minds.
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