Posted by Neal on February 24, 2009, at 23:39:38
In reply to As a board, can we do anything about this?, posted by Neal on February 23, 2009, at 23:44:16
-"The findings of a national survey published in June indicated that only 40 percent of Americans in treatment for depression received adequate care."
I was'nt trying to rag on doctors. The article this cut came from was about docs who get depression and don't recognize in themselves! It's just the low state of knowledge in this country; people want to sweep it under the rug. Little by little things are changing, but there's so much suffering that could be turned around.
And to answer my own question; this board is part of the answer. If some of us get a little ponderous in our answers, it's because we're aware that were talking to more than one person. And that our posts will be on the web for years after the date of posting.
The irony is that this is the one disease that puts a lot of the responsibility for treatment on the patient themselves, but its symptoms makes it 5 times as hard for the patient to deal with.
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