Christina Kim, long one of the LPGA Tour's most effervescent personalities, opens up about her battle with depression.
"I felt like all the fun and joy was suffocating me," she says now. "I looked down, and the water seemed very inviting, even though I can't swim. The solitude and silence that I was seeking, which I couldn't find anywhere in the building because everyone was laughing and living life and being happy, seemed to be in the water." She thought it over, stood there for about 15 minutes while ignoring phone calls from her boyfriend, and finally decided she couldn't do it. The keys to the courtesy car were in her purse, and she didn't want to leave her friends stranded.
John Daly - "You've got to be open about it to someone--your family, maybe not to the world like I am, but to somebody. Live in the future. I can't live in the past--hell, I'd have committed suicide if I'd lived in my past."
"When your serotonin is low, it means you have an anxious depression. If your dopamine is low, you have what we call anergic depression; you have low energy, and you're really slow. Some people suffer from a hybrid of both." For this reason, all antidepressants are far from the same. "[Prescribing the right medication] is an art," Lardon says. "Good treatment means the person doesn't know they're on medicine, but their target symptoms have remitted and been mitigated."
"Hopefully I can have a wonderful ending to this chapter and give hope to others. If I can help one person by practically losing my voice from screaming and being down to hell and back, and going to Q school and making it, then that's fine. I'm willing to make that sacrifice."
http://www.golfdigest.com/golf-digest-woman/2012-12/christina-kim-profile-sternberg
