Doctors and depression.

摘要

Having read a number of articles over the last few issues about depression and its treatment and, speaking as a retired GP with lived experience of the 'condition'; 'symptom cluster'; 'diagnosis'; 'disease', I pose the simple question: why do doctors still struggle in relation to the brain? Professor Steven Pinker says that 'mind is one of the things the brain does' and my own experience suggests that is indeed the case and that 'mind is not all the brain does and the body's "minding" functions are not just vested in the brain, but throughout every cell, fibre, and synapse of our being"'.