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Ms. Howard walked up the stairs. She is a petite woman, and although she was dressed in jeans and a T-shirt, she wore full pancake makeup, an oddly formal touch reminiscent of her mother. On the second floor sat two women, nearly three feet high and carved from wood. ''These are from her apartment, too,'' Ms. Howard said. ''They're 14th-century Spanish altar pieces. I call them the girls.'' Her smile was wry. ''She had them on the aforementioned English sideboard.''
After pointing out a sculpture by a son of Gauguin (''Another offspring -- I always loved that''), she passed a Renoir etching in the hallway and a Cecil Beaton in the bathroom. The place has an offhand elegance quite different from the baronial splendor of her mother's trophy home. ''People ask what period this is,'' Ms. Howard said, going back downstairs, ''and I tell them, 'Early whatever you feel like.' ''
Ms. Howard dished out some cold yogurt soup and recalled her childhood in Eau Claire, Wis., where her mom would throw a fur coat over her nightgown to drive her to school. That was before the family moved to Chicago, where her father, Jules Lederer, founded Budget Rent a Car, and her mother won the contest to become Ann Landers. Margo was 15 then, a time when most mother-daughter relationships are at their most volatile.
Or should be. Mrs. Lederer's own mother, Ms. Howard said, ''was old-country, a stern taskmaster who brooked no nonsense.''
''I remember, my mother and I were in my bathroom in Chicago, fighting, and I said, 'You are crazy.' She slapped my face, then realized she hit me and burst into tears. Afterward, she said, 'I think what got me was that I could never say anything like that to my mother.' ''
MRS. LEDERER also had trouble confronting her sister, even after Mrs. Phillips gave an interview to Ladies' Home Journal in which she claimed to have ghostwritten Mrs. Lederer's early columns. Although her mother always forgave her twin, Ms. Howard was never close to her aunt or to her daughter, Jeanne Phillips, who took over Dear Abby after Mrs. Phillips developed Alzheimer's disease. Ms. Howard was less than pleased when Ms. Phillips sent what her cousin called ''her weepy dear Aunt Eppie letter'' to newspapers running Ann Landers, offering it free just days after Mrs. Lederer's death.
But after Jeanne Phillips appeared on ''Larry King Live,'' Ms. Howard lashed out in a piece in The Chicago Tribune. ''She went on and with big eyes said, 'What a tragedy there's no funeral,' Ms. Howard recalled. ''Well, we had a tiny, tiny service. Mother wanted her ashes in Lake Michigan, across from her apartment, which we did, 16 of us, including my husband and children. And for Jeanne to go on television and quarrel with her wishes, well, between that and those letters, it was more than I was willing to put up with. That wasn't about grief -- it was about getting new clients.''
Asked to respond, Ms. Phillips's assistant said, ''Dear Abby can't come to the phone just now,'' and faxed a letter from her that said in part, ''Considering the tremendous number of people Ann Landers touched and my respect for her, I thought this tribute was very appropriate to share with as many people as possible.''
Although Ms. Howard's mother had offered to turn over the Ann Landers column to her, she declined. ''Very high-achieving people are driven by a neurotic motor,'' she said. ''My father had to stop being a poor kid on the streets of Detroit. Mother had to outdistance her loony twin sister, who would not let her stop being a twin. I had a comfortable, secure, loving childhood. Why beat myself up to become known for anything?''
Ms. Howard gave up her newspaper column after interviewing the actor Ken Howard, who became her third husband. All three of her children are from her first marriage, to John Coleman: Abra, a homemaker with three children, lives in Minneapolis; Adam, a filmmaker, lives in England and has a daughter with the actress Polly Walker; Andrea, known as Cricket, is a forensic pathologist in New York.
When her marriage to Mr. Howard ended, Ms. Howard returned to the apartment she had grown to love when he worked in Cambridge at the American Repertory Theater. ''Chicago was done for me,'' she said. ''L.A. was about Ken's business. New York always overwhelmed me. This was perfect, the anti-L.A. I had layers of friends here, one of whom introduced me to Dr. Pussycat.'' That is her husband, Ron Weintraub, a cardiac surgeon, whom Ms. Howard also calls ''Mr. Right No. 4.''
''Everyone was welcoming to me, maybe because I wasn't interested in competing with them,'' she said. ''I wasn't another double-Ph.D come to town.''
She still has no interest in competing. Unlike her mother, who never remarried and yearned for a partner in later life, Ms. Howard says she has found happiness in this marriage and genuine satisfaction in her new line of work. ''Mother loved Prudence, by the way,'' she said, ''which pleased me enormously.''
That seems to be enough. ''I have what Mr. Howard called a toy career,'' she said with a shrug, lifting her gaze to her mother's portrait. Her expression grew peaceful. ''I have a great appreciation,'' she said confidently. ''I know how to enjoy someone else's work.''
Photos: ADVISERS -- Margo Howard with a portrait of her mother, known to some as Eppie Lederer. (Photo by Jodi Hilton for The New York Times)(pg. F1); LIFE OF LETTERS -- Margo Howard in her writing den. Inset, Ms. Howard with her mother, Eppie Lederer, in the 1970's. (Photos by Jodi Hilton for The New York Times; inset, Howard family archive)(pg. F11)


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Skip to comments.Golden Gate Bridge officials vote for suicide net
Posted on 10/10/2008 9:06:21 PM PDT by CounterCounterCulture
SAN FRANCISCO Golden Gate Bridge officials have voted to hang a stainless steel net below the iconic span to stop suicides.
The Golden Gate Transportation District's board of directors voted 14-1...
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Let 'em die. This is a waste of money. There's always a way. How many tall buildings, cars, guns, knives, pills, ropes, and paper bags do they have in San Francisco?
I see.
"Oh. You mean I can't commit suicide off the Golden Gate? Well, I won't do it then after all."
Tyoical diseased liberal reasoning.
So now instead of hitting the water and going splat, the suicide will hit a stainless steel mesh and be grated to shreds like a cheese-grater!
Only in San Francisco.
Errrmmm...SF decided to cheese grate jumpers instead of drowning them?
LOL beat me!
I recommend that suicide wanna-be's just lie down in the roadway and let traffic run over them.
"Golden Gate Bridge officials have voted to hang a stainless steel net below the iconic span to stop suicides. "
Is this to nicely dice the suicide wanna bee's for the sharks below in the bay? I mean someone jumping from higher up on the bridge would just go through... in nicely sized chucks.
"Let em die. This is a waste of money. Theres always a way. How many tall buildings, cars, guns, knives, pills, ropes, and paper bags do they have in San Francisco?"
You left out Gavin Newsome - he could kill you with pure smarm.
Only in liberal land.
Glad to hear that San Francisco and California are so well off financialy that they have $50 million to spend on this ridiculous nonsense.
electrify the net, cut down on body searches
Will just force the leapers to leap beyond the net.
Nice Stainless Cheese Grater!
I approve.
'Slice-a-roni, the San Francisco treat.'
They have to do the same for all tall building now or it won't be "fair", they need to make S.F. a Suicide Free zone, maybe line the sidewalks with mattresses, that way the homeless will have "homes" and break the fall of jumpers.
> Slice-a-roni, the San Francisco treat.
Not bad!
'I left my parts... in San Francisco.'
At least its Dolphin safe.
Or maybe even the San Mateo Bridge, but that would only work if you didn't know how to swim.
So now someone who want to commit suicide off the bridge has to make two jumps, one off the bridge,and a second off the net. Unless they were already converted to french fries.
What happens if someone tries to commit suicide by jumping off the suicide net? I guess they will have to put up a suicide net safety net.
Talk about disappointment.
I thought they were going to set up something like a telephone tree to trigger a "lemming event".
Maybe next time.
I heard they are thinking of installing one of those nets on Wall St next week.
Like the eyesore wind farm at Altamont pass!
I once tried to kill myself with a paper bag. For some reason, I was not successful.
Awareness Ribbons!
Didn't you forget Awareness Ribbons?
It's stupidity like this that makes San Francisco, San Fransicso.
Bridges don't kill people. People jumping off bridges kill people. Well, at least liberals in this instance are consistent. I'm surprised they didn't vote to close the bridge (to be really consistent with their position on guns).
The 49ers are playing at Miami this year, so they really didn't need to worry about that for a while.
This is the funniest thread ever. LOL!
(However, I recently saw a GG Bridge documentary about suicides, included real footage of suicides, very sad.)
Cheering me up after the "John McCain said Obama would make a fine president" threads.
Was the film you saw called The Bridge(^)? I recently saw that. Sad and sobering.
Cheering me up after the John McCain said Obama would make a fine president threads.
The first thought I had after seeing the story about the mesh net was: Just in time for the elections.
Actually, I'm surprised they didn't vote to tear the bridge down. That's the lib solution for any river dam that harms a single fish.
for a sanctuary city socialist utopia there sure is a lot of people throwing themselves off bridges.
Nah, they get too much revenue from it. San Francisco doesn't need a steel net -- it needs a big butterfly net.
If they have any material left over, better send it to Wall Street.
If they can;t figure out that you now have to jump into the net, crawl to the edge of the net to finish the job they are too stupid to commit suiside anyway!
I was pretty depressed the other night...
I called lifeline.
Got a call center in Pakistan...
I told them I was suicidal...
They got real excited...
Wanted to know if I knew how to drive a truck.
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So I work at an office job and love it. I'm only granted 12 weeks off when the little one comes. I am still sick and in the bathroom at least a quarter of the day. At my office if I get put on bed rest I can work from home. If no bed rest, no work from home. I work over an hour away from my house. When you are sick, most of you know that 10 mins is a long drive much less an hour.
So the real question is:
When I go back to the doctor at the end of the month I plan on explaining what is going on and see if she will put me on bedrest for 10 weeks or up until the last month of pregnancy. That will allow me to work from home for a couple of months to get my diet and stomach worked out a little bit. Do you ladies think this is wrong? I feel so unproductive here right now. Have any of you done this?
Thanks for the input!


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Current Study Listings
We currently have many research studies offering treatments for individuals who have symptoms of depression.
Medication-Based Studies
Several of our medication-based studies are exploring the use of a new medication in combination with an already prescribed antidepressant medication. These studies are for individuals who have not received enough benefit from the antidepressant medications that they are currently taking.
Trial of Rapid-acting Intranasal Esketamine for Treatment-resistant Major Depressive Disorder (TRANSFORM-2)
We are currently enrolling participants for a clinical research study to look at the effectiveness and safety of an investigational medication (given as a nasal spray) in patients with depression who have not responded to prior treatment with at least two antidepressants. If you are eligible for this study and choose to participate, you will receive all study visits and study-related medical care at no cost to you.
There are three phases in the study:
- A screening phase of up to 7 weeks
- A 4-week treatment phase
- A 24-week follow-up phase
Some patients will be given the option to continue treatment in another study and will not have a follow-up phase. Patients who do not have a follow-up phase will be in the study for 11 weeks; all other patients will be in the study for 35 weeks.
To be considered for this study, you must be:
- 18 to 64 years old
- Diagnosed with depression
- Experiencing depression symptoms despite having taken two antidepressant medications in the past
- Comfortable with using a nasal spray
- Able to provide written consent to participate in the study
The study doctor will discuss additional requirements for being in the study with you.
A Relapse Prevention Study Evaluating the Efficacy of Vortioxetine in Adults with Major Depressive Disorder
This study is being conducted to evaluate the long-term maintenance effects of individuals treated with vortioxetine (aka, Brintellix) in the prevention of depression relapse. Participants will be enrolled into a 8-16 weeks open-label treatment period. During the open-label period, all subjects will receive 10 mg Vortioxetine. At the end of the open label patients have option to go into 16 -52 week, double blind study to assess the Efficacy and Safety of Vortioxetine (5, 10 and 20 mg) in Adults with MDD.
A Clinical Trial of Switching to Vilazodone for Antidepressant-Associated Sexual Dysfunction
This is a research study for an antidepressant called vilazodone, which is suspected to have fewer negative effects on sexual functioning than other medications that are used to treat depression. Vilazodone is commercially available under the name Viibryd™. Currently, vilazodone has been approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a treatment for major depressive disorder. This study will measure any improvement in the sexual side effects that may occur in patients who are switched to vilazodone or sertraline.
The purpose of this study is to help answer the following questions:
- Do patients with sexual dysfunction from taking an antidepressant who are switched to vilazodone have greater improvement in sexual functioning than those patients who are switched to sertraline?
- Can vilazodone help patients with major depressive disorder as well as the antidepressant that the patient was taking to treat the disorder?
Therapy-Based Studies
The purpose of this research study is to determine the effectiveness of computer-assisted cognitive-behavior therapy for the treatment of depression. The computer program is called Good Days Ahead (GDA). It is a web-based multimedia program that provides 8 sessions of Cognitive Behavior Therapy, an effective psychotherapy for treatment of depression. GDA is designed to help people learn the basic principles of cognitive-behavior therapy and build skills to help reduce their depression. Typically, it takes a person 1 hour to complete each of the 8 sessions. Because GDA is an internet based therapy, it does not require a therapist to deliver the treatment so is less costly and can be more widely used.
We want to learn whether people with HIV like the treatment and how it effects their depression. Your involvement in the study will last between 9 and 17 weeks depending on the treatment group to which you are assigned. The entire study will take about 9 months to complete. This study has two parts: screening/baseline and the 8-week CCBT treatment with Good Days Ahead. Half of the participants will get CCBT immediately following the screening /baseline visit. The other half of participants will wait 8 weeks before starting CCBT.
Observational Studies
This study is being done to collect information related to Major Depressive Disorder (MDD). You will be asked to complete questionnaires about your symptoms and functioning, information about your daily activity and sleep quality, and provide speaking samples that will allow us to examine your speech and voice characteristics. All of these factors will be examined to see if any of them can be used to predict worsening of depression at some future time.
You will be in the study for about 13 months. The study is designed to follow all subjects until a total of 150 people have had a relapse (when all the symptoms of depression return). Based on when this number is achieved, there may be a chance that you will be asked to participate for longer than 13 months, or shorter than 13 months.
How to Participate in These Studies
In order for you to participate, you must first complete a pre-screen set of questionnaires to determine if you might benefit from one of these studies. You may complete this screening online by clicking here or you may call us at 215-898-4301 to complete a pre-screen telephone interview. Once this is completed, a study coordinator will either schedule you with one of our doctors or refer you to a more suitable treatment center.
If you do not qualify for one of our research studies now, we will keep your information so that we may contact you in the future about new studies.
We also collaborate on the following studies:
- The Behavioral Sleep Medicine Program treats and studies sleep disorders, primarily insomnia. We provide not only the highest standard of care for Insomnia (both with cognitive behavioral treatment of insomnia, CBT-I, and/or Pharmacotherapy) but also provide for a full spectrum of non-drug interventions for most of the non-medical sleep disorders. For more information visit: http://www.med.upenn.edu/bsm.html or call 215-7-insomn (215-746-7666)
- Mindfulness and Cognitive Therapy: We also collaborate with psychologists who are exploring the use of mindfulness in the treatment of acute health problems, depression and anxiety.
For more information or to schedule an appointment, please call us at 215-898-4301.
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