by Madeline Halpert and Eva Rosenfeld,
NY Times, May 21, 2014
The authors of this NY Times Opinion piece are managing editors at their high school newspaper in Michigan.
"Most of our closest friends didn’t know that we struggled with depression. It just wasn’t something we discussed with our high school classmates. We found that we both had taken Prozac only when one of us caught a glimpse of a prescription bottle in a suitcase during a journalism conference last November. For the first time, we openly discussed our feelings and our use of antidepressants with someone who could relate. We took a risk sharing our experiences with depression, but in our honesty, we found a support system. We knew we had to take the idea further."
Full Opinion Piece in the Times
Here’s an article with background information on “Depressed but Not Ashamed.