A new study bolsters Hillary Clinton’s case that the country is in need of a major overhaul on mental health.
The study, published in JAMA Internal Medicine, finds that the majority of Americans who screen positive for depression do not receive any treatment of the condition. That is despite the fact that most people who do receive psychiatric treatment are not clinically depressed.
A survey of more than 46,000 U.S. adults found that 8.7 percent reported symptoms of depression and roughly 8 percent reporting receiving treatment for depression. And yet, those two groups of people were not one and the same. Not even close.
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