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In 1974 Family Health magazine reported the leatling untreated illness in the United States was not cancer, heart disease, or diabetes, but depression. Government reports estimated twenty million adults suffered serious depressive symptoms each year; but according to Dr. Nathan S. Kline, director of the Rockland State Research Center at Orangeburg, New York, few family physicians treated it because they were unable to identify the true signs of depression. In particular, symptoms of anhedonia — a total absence of, any feeling of pleasure— were often overlooked. Dr. Kline urged the establishment of on-the-job-training programs for family doctors with an initial consultation from a psychiatrist.
Source "News from the World of Medicine," Readers Digest (Pleasantville, New York, January 1975) 117
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Community-based facilities differed widely in quality and type. Some were halfway houses operating on shoestring budgets in low-income areas. Large centers provided day-care activities for patients...
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