Steve Busalacchi reports. An inability to enjoy pleasure, crying spells and a lack of appetite that lasts for days. These are all symptoms of clinical depression, according to the State Medical Society of Wisconsin's Doctor Marie Ferber. Ferber, a Milwaukee psychiatrist, says 25-percent of us have symptoms of clinical depression. Doctor Ferber says the biggest barrier to treating depression is stigma.
Many people fear they'll be labeled crazy or emotionally weak if they go for help.
But what they don't realize, according to Doctor Ferber, is that depression is a medical illness, like diabetes or cancer. And after treatment, she says patients are often amazed that they could feel so good. With the State Medical Society's On-Air Health Care report, I'm Steve Busalacchi.