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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: Sub-Driver

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

Curse those depression meds!


21 posted on 03/07/2007 9:36:14 AM PST by mrs. a (It's a short life but a merry one...)
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To: Sub-Driver
taking medication for depression should know that "it saved my life," she said.

If Ann Coulter were here she might say "thats too bad"

22 posted on 03/07/2007 9:37:20 AM PST by staytrue
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To: Sub-Driver

23 posted on 03/07/2007 9:37:24 AM PST by maggief
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To: n230099

I don't think she owns a dress.


24 posted on 03/07/2007 9:37:26 AM PST by alice_in_bubbaland (As for me, I will remain neutral...for the time being.)
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To: Sub-Driver
I'd be depressed too, if I looked likewas a pig
25 posted on 03/07/2007 9:37:41 AM PST by LtdGovt ("Where government moves in, community retreats and civil society disintegrates" -Janice Rogers Brown)
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To: dfwgator

"How does the swing keep from collapsing with so much weight?"

Her fat head weighs as much as her fat ass, so it's balanced.


26 posted on 03/07/2007 9:37:52 AM PST by MeanWestTexan (Kol Hakavod Lezahal)
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To: dfwgator

They have the swing attached to the Empire State Building. So far...it has held up well.


27 posted on 03/07/2007 9:38:24 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: P-40

-that was my first thought, she should try walking a half hour each day instead of something so clearly hokey.


28 posted on 03/07/2007 9:38:31 AM PST by tioga
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To: Sub-Driver

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


Paging Tom Cruise. IIRC, he seems to have an opinion on this subject and would be willing to share it.


29 posted on 03/07/2007 9:38:37 AM PST by kalee (The offenses we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we write in marble. JHuett)
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To: alice_in_bubbaland
I don't think she owns a dress.

But she's got a huge closet full of tents.

30 posted on 03/07/2007 9:38:49 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Sub-Driver

Did she even have the kids back then?


31 posted on 03/07/2007 9:39:04 AM PST by freeperfromnj
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To: NormsRevenge

Her head is mostly made up of blubber, no brains there.


32 posted on 03/07/2007 9:39:07 AM PST by alice_in_bubbaland (As for me, I will remain neutral...for the time being.)
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To: Sub-Driver

You know, I think only someone with extraordinarily bad judgment would make all of this known to the public.

This is none of our business. However, now that Ms. O'Donnell has let these details become public, I have this to say: She's crackers, and now we know why.


33 posted on 03/07/2007 9:39:12 AM PST by RexBeach
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To: maggief

LOL, perfect!


34 posted on 03/07/2007 9:39:50 AM PST by SeaBiscuit (God Bless America..Duncan Hunter 2008.)
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To: dfwgator
Her swing.


35 posted on 03/07/2007 9:39:54 AM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (Carry Daily. Apply Sparingly.)
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To: MeanWestTexan

ROTFLMAO!


36 posted on 03/07/2007 9:40:06 AM PST by alice_in_bubbaland (As for me, I will remain neutral...for the time being.)
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To: JellyJam

I'm not a Doctor but I knew that.


37 posted on 03/07/2007 9:40:12 AM PST by golfisnr1 (Democrats are like roaches - hard to get rid of.)
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To: maggief

Grandpa Munster knew about this years ago.


38 posted on 03/07/2007 9:40:30 AM PST by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: Sax

"If she'd hang rightside up, it'd improve my mood."

LMAO!!! I couldn't agree more!


39 posted on 03/07/2007 9:40:52 AM PST by Invayne
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To: indylindy

Bet shes even uglier upside down.
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You will have to ask her girlfriend about that opinon :-)
If I looked like Rosie, I would have a penis transplant and get a job as a lumber jack.


40 posted on 03/07/2007 9:41:00 AM PST by EagleUSA
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