Tricia Stream was 15 when she got her first migraine. "It felt
like someone was tightening a C-clamp on my head and banging my
temples with a hammer," said Stream, now 31, who lives in San
Jose, Calif. As Stream got older, her migraines became more
intense and more frequent. By her junior year of college, she
was getting them every other day. And they were getting her
down. "I just wanted to lie in a dark room and not talk to
anyone," said Stream, describing the extreme aversion to light
and sound and debilitating pain that would send her into fetal
position. "I became very much withdrawn and wasn't really
eating. That's when my roommate said, 'You need to talk to
someone.'" Stream talked to a doctor who diagnosed her with
depression, a mood disorder often linked to migraines. According
to a new study, women with a history of migraines are up to 41
percent more likely to develop depression than their migraine-
free counterparts. "Our study shows that migraine is a potential
risk factor for depression," said st