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According to Dr. Randolph Catlin, head of the Mental Health Service at University Health Services (UHS),12 to 15 percent of undergraduates are seen by mental health services at least once during their college careers...
...story is the same. Dr. Peter Reich '52, chief of psychiatry at the MIT medical department, says about eight percent of MIT under-graduates are seen each year for mental health concerns. "In at least one half of the students, depression is an important component of their presentation or complaint," he says...
According to the National Institute of Mental Health, 25 percent of all women and 10 percent of all men will suffer from at least one episode of depression at some point in their lives...
Hyman and most other mental health expertsinsist that depression is a brain disease ratherthan a sign of personal or moral weakness...
...Mental health experts strongly advise therapyin addition to medication for more severe cases ofmajor or manic depression...