Depression's Cost--Part 2

The family of Lucy Maud Mongtomery, author of the beloved "Anne of Green Gables" series of young adult novels, has recently revealed that the author's death in 1942 was in fact suicide. The news came in an article in Canada's Globe and Mail newspaper written by the Montogomery's granddaughter Kate Macdonald Butler.

Montgomery struggled with depression for years before she took her life. Now her granddaughter hopes to bring attention to the condition and its effects. "I have come to feel very strongly that the stigma surrounding mental illness will be forever upon us as a society until we sweep away the misconception that depression happens to other people, not to us--and most certainly not to our heroes and icons," she wrote.--David E