Thursday, June 28,  from 10 till noon.

Daytime Group at the Willow Grove Giant Supermarket in Upstairs Classroom. Enter Giant on right of store, take stairs or elevator to second floor. Classroom will be posted.

Giant is at 315 York Road, Willow Grove PA 19090. Across the street from Ralph’s Steaks. Accessible via public transportation. PLEASE ARRIVE ON TIME.

Call discussion leader Helen Kirschner at 215-646-0266 and she’ll remind you of the next meeting.

Enter Giant on right of store, take stairs or elevator to second floor. Classroom will be posted.

Giant is at 315 York Road, Willow Grove PA 19090, across from Ralph Steaks. Accessible via public transportation. PLEASE ARRIVE ON TIME.

Helen Kirschner is your discussion leader. Call Helen to remind you of upcoming meetings: 215-646-0266.
215-646-0266.

Tuesday, Oct 16, from 7:30 to 9:45 pm at Abington Presbyterian Church, 1082 Old York Road (Route 611) at Susquehanna, Abington PA 19001.

Park and walk thru red door. Meeting is downstairs, end of hallway, Last Room on Left.

Guest speaker is Rosemary DeLuca of PLAN of PA. Topic is “Making plans for your loved when you’re no longer here.”

We ask a donation of $5 per person, $8 per family.

Park and walk thru red door. Meeting is downstairs, end of hallway, Last Room on Left.

We ask a donation of $5 per person or $8 for a whole family.

See website here.

On CrazyBoards, a woman wrote:

Q:  I work in healthcare and have BP and noticed a patient was prescribed Deplin with their antidepressant and said she felt better than she had in years. Deplin is supposedly just a form of folic acid, M-methylfolate or something like that… Has anyone heard of it, tried it, know anything about it?

A: It’s L- Methylfolate. brand name is Deplin. And its creators should be given money, awards etc. It’s a version of folate that can cross the blood-brain barrier. Some people can take all the folate in the world and their body doesn’t have enough of the enzymes required to break it down and absorb it.

Since absorbing this is important in the process of creating serotonin and various other neurotransmitters, people with this issue aren’t helped enough by serotonin re-uptake inhibitors since they don’t have enough of them to start with. This helps “fill your well” so to speak so that the other drugs that enhance the efficient use of neurotransmitters have enough to play with. They tell you it can take up to six weeks to feel the effect but I felt noticeably better after 5 days.

Unless you have some sensitivity to B-vitamins there is not really a problem with toxicity since it is a waterbased vitamin and your kidneys eliminate any extras. It may have no effect all for some but for me it was great. I am still having issues with depression but the constant feeling like I had given blood, run a marathon and been beaten with a stick all the freakin time has started to lift.

By the time in the day when I normally felt like all I could do was lie back down ( about five minutes after waking up) I actually felt like doing some of the crap around the house I am always yelling at myself for not doing.

I am not a health professional in any way but just a nutty who took organic chemistry. This stuff requires a prescription but even full price (I don’t have insurance) is less than $50 at my local retail pharmacy. I am happy to pay it. I had blood tests that showed vitamin deficiencies (B-12, folate and D among others) and regular antidepression drugs just weren’t doing it, so my psychiatrist threw it in the mix to see if would help and it was a godsend.

Good luck.

Park and walk thru red door. Meeting is downstairs, end of hallway, Last Room on Left.

Guest speaker Dan Kelly of Merrill Lynch will discuss Planning for Your Loved One when You are No Longer Here. Contact him at
(215) 517-2219 OR   daniel3.kelly@ml.com.

We’ll walk in the beautiful Valley Forge National Park for about an hour, followed by a snack at a local restaurant.

Lyz is our hike leader. Contact her at 215-206-0657 (no texts please) or email her at Lyz Hagenbuch <hagenbej@muohio.edu>

As of today, Thursday, the weather forecast is Partly Sunny, high of 63 on Sunday.

See you at Abington Prez!!!

We’ll then drive to Montgomery County Community College, 340 Dekalb Pike,  Blue Bell, PA 19422.

Signs will be posted at college. You’ll meet our New Directions team there.

Bob Assetto is our team captain.

For questions, call Bob at 215-906-6420.

OK to donate checks or cash to New Directions. You also may do so thru our PayPal account on our homepage. Scroll down.

Park and walk thru red door. Meeting is downstairs, end of hallway, Last Room on Left.

Park and walk thru red door. Meeting is downstairs, end of hallway, Last Room on Left.

Guest speaker Shimon Waldfogel, psychiatrist at Abington Memorial Hospital, will talk about How to Live a Full Life if You have a Mood Disorder.