Depressed Trainees and the PI

A little while ago Isis the Scientist posted a reader question about whether an academic trainee should broach mental illness issues with his or her PI. As Isis said, it is one heck of a question. To be honest, Isis alluded to the topic in an email prior to writing her post and I basically had no good suggestions.
Today, PalMD has posted a letter from another academic trainee who suffers from depression. I encourage you PIs in my audience to go over there and comment.
Some of the reasons I view this as an incredibly difficult situation are after the jump

Silence is the Enemy, the final push

Okay, I did a little snooping around our hit stats and discovered that we could use some targeted clicking to push a couple of the blogs that are donating their June payout to the Doctors Without Borders / Medicins sans Frontieres over the next pay threshold. So if you all read a couple of extra archived posts, maybe send one to a few friends, Twitt it or whatnot we’ll be doing well. If you are a SuperReader, you might think of putting a post, old or new, from one of these blogs on the Reader’s Picks list.
First up is:

End the Silence: A worthy kickoff

A small note of thanks for *reading this month DearReader since the blog is participating in the End the Silence campaign to raise awareness of sexual violence.
Scicurious points out that this is just the beginning.
Sheril Kirshenbaum has a new post, with soundtrack, up over at The Intersection.
I’ll also draw your attention to the www.stopsilence.com website, spearheaded by Arikia Millikin.
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*We’ve made an incremental traffic payout threshold in the last day or so and would have little chance of making the next one by the end of today. So you might as well devote your last-minute clicking to other blogs. Perhaps I’ll be able to round up a list of where you can do the most good a bit later.