Slowly, America Takes Depression Seriously

It's long been the argument of mental health advocates--ok and me too--that this country needs to take depression seriously and do it in a way that destigmatizes the treatment process. Here we go. One of the largest insurers in America has announced that it will pay family practice docs extra to screen for and monitor common depression. More serious cases will be referred to psych docs. It's about damn time. I hope we are at a tipping point.

Now, if only we could anti-depressants and other meds that work more often than 50 percent of the time.