Many people who could benefit from insulin are fearful of injections, so they delay treatment five years or 10 years, placing them at risk for serious complications.

We can be very successful at controlling diabetes.

If we think tight control of diabetes is important, then we need a different mind-set.

It takes a lot of effort.

People should be closely monitored, but not because these drugs are especially risky. The real problem in the treatment of depression is that people start medicine and the medicine has side effects or the medicine doesn't work right away, and they get discouraged and they drop out.

Treatment isn't a quick fix, so you have to have a positive outlook and be able to keep people motivated and excited as they progress through the whole process.