Depression: What Is It, Who Gets It, And How Is It Treated?
9 min readAug 8, 2019
By: Lindsay Israel, MD, Psychiatrist
A psychiatrist provides a clinician’s view of debilitating depression: what it looks like, who’s likely to get it, and what are current treatment modalities
I am a board-certified psychiatrist and I have been providing treatment for depression to patients for over 10 years.
