When Depression Kills from Fox News by Dr. Keith Ablow

Hegel’s tragic story may, as much as anyone’s, demonstrate the fine line between psychiatric disorders and violent behavior. We don’t know whether Hegel suffered with major depression or psychotic thinking, but some of the students he held hostage noted that he seemed depressed and that he didn’t seem to have any clear goal in mind when he brandished two handguns, shot up a film projector, then refused to let them leave their classroom. [...] When depression takes hold, mood falls, sometimes dramatically, and anxiety levels often rise precipitously. More trouble for one’s state of mind comes as sleep becomes scarce (or excessive) and appetite falls off, triggering physiological changes that accelerate the disease process, making it impossible to concentrate and not infrequently convincing the depressed person that nothing will ever get better—only worse. He will never be able to work, never be able to learn, never have another friend, never have a romance, embarrass himself and his family and be a burden to everyone he once loved. Some depressed people have told me that they look at photos of their children and feel as though they are strangers. They feel utterly, completely alone, as though God has Himself forsaken them. [...] I am one psychiatrist and—even without my work in forensics—I have treated a billionaire with depression who believed he was utterly penniless and wanted to die, a depressed woman who was convinced her son had been kidnapped and replaced by a masquerading double (who she thought she might need to kill), a college student who came to believe that his arms were not his own arms and needed to be severed (which was prevented), a depressed mother who wanted to kill her new baby, and a depressed business professional who was convinced the CIA was pursuing him and would ultimately kill him—if he didn’t kill them first. They all recovered. It took the right medicines and a deep and empathetic exploration of past psychological [...]

Read the article, "When Depression Kills," at Fox News. See also: Living the Truth: Transform Your Life Through the Power of Insight and Honesty, Inside the Mind of John Mark Karr, Inside the Mind of Scott Peterson

The Thursday, October 21, 2010 Charlie Rose Conversation with Dana Milbank

CHARLIE ROSE: Dana Milbank is here. He is a veteran political
reporter and columnist for "The Washington Post." He is also the author of
a new book on Glenn Beck called "Tears of a Clown -- Glenn Beck and the Tea
Bagging of America."

Over the past few years Beck, a well-known cable television host, has
become a leader in the modern conservative movement. In August he hosted
the restoring honor rally in Washington D.C. which attracted hundreds of
thousands of attendees. I’m pleased to have Dana Milbank back on this
program. Welcome.

Dana Milbank believes that Beck is dangerous. See the full interview here. See also: Homo Politicus: The Strange and Scary Tribes that Run Our Government, Smashmouth: Two Years in the Gutter with Al Gore and George W. Bush, O is For Obama: An Irreverent A-to-Z Guide to Washington and Beltway Politics

Being Glenn Beck from NYT > Home Page by By MARK LEIBOVICH

Sitting in his Mercury Radio Arts office three days later, Beck told me that he, too, noticed the silence and was astounded. “If someone had told me, ‘Hey, why don’t you tell some history stories at the end, and there will be dead silence,’ I’d have said, ‘No way.’ ” Beck has great distrust of success, especially his own. Friends say he is terrified of something going wrong, someone in his audience “doing something stupid” (presumably code for violence). There is a certain boyish disbelief in Beck as he engages in his real-time assessment, often on the air. “I told my wife, ‘I can’t believe I actually have reporters following me to Alaska,’ ” he said. (Note: reporter’s wife said the same thing.)

Beck told me that he recently threw away all of his old tapes from his Morning Zoo years, so his kids could not hear them. He has no idea what his role is in the political firmament. The notion seems to bore him. His most animated attacks on Obama in the days after the “Restoring Honor” rally were over his take on the president’s religious convictions, which Beck called “a perversion of the Gospel of Jesus Christ as most Christians know it.”

He is fragile, on the edge. There is no template for him or for where he is headed. “I have not prepared my whole life to be here,” Beck told me from his plush couch, his face turning bright pink. “I prepared my whole life to be in a back alley.” I expected him to cry, but he did not.

You've got to read this profile on Beck; it's hilarious.

Beck: I'm Not The Leader Of The Tea Party (VIDEO) from Huffington Post, The - Blog by The Huffington Post News Editors

On Friday's "O'Reilly Factor," Glenn Beck argued with Bill O'Reilly over whether he was the "leader" of the Tea Party movement. In O'Reilly's upcoming book, Pinheads and Patriots: Where You Stand in the Age of Obama, he says the Tea Party is "led by Fox News commentator and radio talk show host Glenn Beck." Beck took exception to that characterization, telling O'Reilly, "I'm not leading [the Tea Party]."

"Pinheads" is in that title. For that alone, we're looking it up. We're citing HuffPo BTW. See also: The Overton Window, Arguing with Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government, Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine