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- - Guest Column: Coming to terms with depression By Shannon Webb Print this page !

- - I exhausted my parents.

Bewildered them.

However, it was not due to the usual rebellious acts of adolescence.

Rather than sneaking out after dark, I spent my evenings curled up haphazardly reading a book of poetry.

Against all their admonishments, I sat and read, becoming entranced by the words that covered the fragile and yellowing pages.

I encountered miracles of language as I perused the small, green books my great Aunt Leotris had given me.

Using the built-in bookmarks made of ribbon, I would note groupings of words that particularly inspired me.

I was a somber, brooding girl even then, and the words that spoke to me the most were the sad ones.

They loomed close to me as I read, giving me a way to understand my own experience.Soon, I began to concentrate on the biographical sketches that prefaced the volumes of poetry.

There was one word I encountered continuously as I read: Melancholy.

I simply loved the sound of it.

It was a soft-lit co...

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"Well, yes, but on the other hand she suffers from a serious mental illness and there were six psychiatrists who were prepared to testify had we gone to trial that she is indeed mentally ill," he told "Good Morning America." "She is being treated now and is a different person than she was a couple of years ago and she recognizes how serious that situation was." He also said this was Lafave's way of showing optimism for what lies ahead.

"This has been a long ordeal," Fitzgibbons told "Good Morning America," "but she's optimistic and I think she's looking at this on a long-term basis and she'll go on with her life and have a good life." Florida state prosecutors dropped charges against Lafave, 25, after a Marion County judge rejected their second plea agreement.

The plea agreement would not have required Lafave to serve any time in prison.

Still, Lafave isn't going completely without punishment.

In November, a judge in Hillsborough County sentenced her to three years of house arrest and seven years probation, after she pleaded guilty to two counts of lewd and lascivious battery under a plea deal there.

She had been charged with having sex with the boy in a classroom and at her home.

Her lawyer said that the charges in Marion County, related to an incident in which she allegedly had sex with her student in her sport utility vehicle as the boy's cousin drove, might have been dropped because of her mental illness.

"I think that was a big factor, plus the w...

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He is a strong advocate for inclusion in early childhood education.

"Sometimes things go wrong with the way a child's brain develops," says Hendren.

"That doesn't mean that a child should be limited from the benefits of interacting with other typically developing children.

Children who have developmental issues can start to overcome some of the roadblocks to normalcy, while their peers who are progressing normally can gain important leadership and acceptance skills.

Inclusion can work well for everyone." Contact: Karen Finney, UC Davis Health System Public Affairs, 916-734-9064, karen.finney@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu.

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