Title: Mental Illness Cases Go Untreated : NPR
Headings: Mental Illness Cases Go Untreated
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Mental Illness Cases Go Untreated
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Content: He's not working anymore because of those things. And somehow, it all gets through to me that this guy might be depressed. And I say, `You know, let's talk a little bit about how you're feeling.' Well, Mr. Jones came in to get his medications refilled for his other diseases, and he wants to know how well he's doing with his diabetes. He may not be particularly receptive to spend more time talking about things that he didn't think were part of what he was coming in for. SILBERNER: Klinkman says about half his patients initially reject his diagnosis of depression or other mental disorder. He saw a man just recently who had fatigue, abdominal pain and a history of depression. Dr. KLINKMAN: We dealt with this abdominal pain and fatigue when I saw him in his previous visits, and it was pretty clear to me, on the basis of that, that this gentleman was having a recurrence of his depression.