globally, and many never receive treatment. For those who have access to mental health care, treating depression and mood disorders can often feel like a guessing game with doctors and patients cycling through different medications in hopes of finding what works.
"Mental health is not like other areas where you go to your primary care doctor for lab work and based on that, they adjust your diabetes or thyroid medication," said, a professor of psychiatry at the Indiana University School of Medicine."We need to have the same standard in mental health care, which unfortunately has been stuck in the 19th century.
As an M.D., I believe in doing no harm and making sure that you're helping people. We're very passionate about this effort and we take our responsibility to patients very seriously.