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Rosie says she's treated for depression [hangs upside down for up to a half-hour a day to improve..]
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Posted on 03/07/2007 9:31:37 AM PST by Sub-Driver

Rosie says she's treated for depression

29 minutes ago

Rosie O'Donnell says she began being treated for depression after the Columbine school shootings and hangs upside down for up to a half-hour a day to improve her mental state.

When gunmen killed 13 people at Columbine High School in Colorado in 1999, O'Donnell said she felt as if it had happened to her children.

"I couldn't stop crying," she said on an episode taped for ABC's "The View" and due to air Friday. "I stayed in my room. The lights were off. I couldn't get out of bed and that's when I started taking medication."

Anyone concerned about the stigma of taking medication for depression should know that "it saved my life," she said.

When she began taking antidepressants, O'Donnell, 44, said she began yoga and "inversion therapy," where she hangs upside down by a swing for 15 to 30 minutes a day. She demonstrates it on "The View."

O'Donnell said she also has seasonal affective disorder, often called SAD, the wintertime blues that can strike when the days grow short. SAD is characterized by recurrent major depressive episodes during the fall and winter.

She's "instantly happy" on sunny days but feels as if she's being tortured when it's cloudy. She feels the most important thing to do when you're feeling depressed is to get up and move.

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To: YankeeReb

... I'm torn between picturing a fat vampire bat and a human pinata...go with human pinata, you can wack it in the ass with a 2X4.


161 posted on 03/08/2007 9:57:22 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Word has it that she has Omar on speed-dial.;P


162 posted on 03/08/2007 9:59:10 AM PST by gimme1ibertee (Tagline: (optional, printed after your name on post):)
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To: Sub-Driver

Hanging upside down returned her intelligence to its proper location on top.


163 posted on 03/08/2007 10:01:56 AM PST by hgro
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To: Sub-Driver

This shouldn't surprise anyone. Someone who's so consistently nasty cannot be happy.


164 posted on 03/08/2007 10:02:57 AM PST by opus86
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To: Sub-Driver
Thats her, second from the right towards the middle with some of her girl friends..........


165 posted on 03/08/2007 10:03:21 AM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: Sub-Driver

So THAT'S how the fat gets in her head.


166 posted on 03/08/2007 10:03:48 AM PST by Psycho_Bunny (I'm holding out hope that at least the DEMOCRATS might accidentally nominate a conservative.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Gays are tormented creatures for the most part.


167 posted on 03/08/2007 10:05:18 AM PST by Suzy Quzy
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To: Sax

LOL!!


168 posted on 03/08/2007 10:05:51 AM PST by Suzy Quzy
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To: Sub-Driver

Hey Rosie.....pray and go back to the Catholic Church and FOLLOW what they say.....you won't be depressed anymore.


169 posted on 03/08/2007 10:09:06 AM PST by Suzy Quzy
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