Isn having chronic illness a good reason to be depressed?
Unfortunately, all too common is a distorted notion that those with a chronic illness have “reason to feel depressed because they are sick.” This belief interferes with early recognition, early treatment, and early relief of suffering from clinical depression. This belief also ignores the facts that clinical depression in people who are physically ill generally responds well to standard psychiatric treatments and that patients treated only for their physical illness can suffer needlessly from clinical depression.
