Rosie's Depressed, Too

We here at the Glitter and Gossip offices seem to be compiling our very own list of depressed celebrities. It started with Zach Braff, then Mandy Moore and Anne Hathaway. Now it's Rosie O'Donnell. In an episode of The View devoted to discussing depression, Rosie revealed that she has been on medication for depression ever since the Columbine shootings, when she felt like it had happened to her own 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.

"Like in `The Wizard of Oz' the color goes out," she said. "That is what happens in depression. Everything gets gray."

I think am getting depressed because so many stars are depressed. The whole "money doesn't equal happiness" thing is true after all. Good to know I can stop buying lottery tickets.

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