These intrepid Aussies blew me away with a thoroughly researched article that really tells it like it is.

Everybody is depressed and anxious. I have seen enough figures saying that mostly all — 60 to 70% — psych meds are given for anxiety and depression. Some say 1/5 to 1/4 of the American/World/choose your country population is growing in anxiety and depression.

Depression can be a pretty darn serious illness that can bring a person’s productivity to a screeching halt.

I have survived numerous theories as to what actually causes depression. Earlier in my training I heard about families in Iowa (where presumably nobody ever moves) where generations of antisocial personality-disordered males had depressed wives,

I think that was supposed to prove the genetic nature of depression, but I always figured, if I were married to an antisocial male I would be depressed too.

I have heard depression blamed on all manners of pollution and industrial waste. Pesticides? Manufacture of plastics?

Just when people start finding all sorts of aches and pains and bodily problems concurrent with depression. Just when I start sending A LOT of my depressed patients to my clever P.A. to beef up their immune systems.

My P.A., (Physicians’ Assistant) Dr. Craig Jace, is a doctor of oriental medicine, a naturopath and homeopath and acupuncturist and probably a lot of stuff I forgot.

I can’t do everything by myself — but with people like Dr. Jace helping me, we are making progress!