Depression is both a cause and effect of diabetes.

Our study shows that depression can be effectively treated in patients with diabetes and the costs associated with improving depression outcomes were offset by savings in medical costs.

Curing the depression won't change lifelong habits for most people.

ECT is not considered for garden-variety depression. If it's more refractory, if other treatments have failed or it's suicidal depression and you don't have time to wait around to see if a medication is going to work, it's considered the gold standard of treatment.

Symptoms of SAD are a little different from depression.

If you have depression and you're 45, waiting six months may have some impact, but it won't likely have that big an impact. If you're three years old and you have a serious developmental issue, six months is a huge loss of your brain not putting it together.