Posted on 01/27/2016 11:42:43 AM PST by BenLurkin
The new guidelines, updated for the first time since 2009 and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, come from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force—an independent volunteer panel of primary care doctors that makes prevention-based medical recommendations. The panel previously advised that adults should be screened for depression when mental health services were available, a limitation the panel says is no longer needed now that screening services are more widely available and accepted as a part of mental health care. Better yet, the panel gave its recommendation a "B" grading, which means depression screening must be covered under the Affordable Care Act.
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The statement from the USPSTP notes that major depressive disorder is a common and significant health care problem: In the U.S., an estimated $22.8 billion was spent on depression treatment in 2009, and it is the leading cause of disability. It's also associated with increased risk of death due to suicide. In fact, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more people die now from suicide in the U.S. (and 90 percent of those deaths are related to mental illness) than car accidents. Not to mention, depression has a major effect on quality of life for both the patient and their family members, especially children, the panel said.
The USPSTP explained in their report that while there is essentially no risk from screening, there's plenty of evidence that programs combining depression screening with adequate support systems in place lead to the reduction or remission of depression symptoms, and that adults with depression identified through screening in primary care settings who are being treated with antidepressants and/or psychotherapy have a decreased risk of death. So while it can't hurt, it certainly can help.
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So we can take away your guns.
So they can check to see if they can take away your guns.....
You beat me to it!!! lol
first thing I thought
It is breathtaking how quickly we became the Soviet Union.
You beat me to it! This stratagem is far too easy...most Americans will probably gladly submit to it...
Hmmmmm ....
I’m too down in the dumps to seek help. :>)
My first thought as well.
We should also be screened for demonic possession and St. Vitus Dance yearly.
Anything to give the fraud that is psychology and politicians more power....
and drug the entire population into submission
When they can come up with a verifiable and repeatable way to definitively diagnose “depression” maybe I’ll play along.
No, not really.
Skeptic! and you probably scoff at phrenology as well.
And how quickly the USSR became America.
I would never have believed it possible, but it happened.
Which is exactly why, no matter how down I may get, I will never reveal it to my enemy.
I see that you are a Republican.
After seven years of Obama and his Supreme tools and fools you must be depressed.
Next patient, please.
specially if you own gun.....
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