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Monday, November 29, 2021
Dear John,
In November’s Narrative Matters essay, Nora Super calls for better treatment for people living with depression.
My Struggle With Recurring Depression
In her November 2021 Narrative Matters essay, Nora Super, senior director of the Milken Institute Center for the Future of Aging and executive director of the Milken Institute Alliance to Improve Dementia Care, shares her story of living with major depression and calls for better treatments.
Super describes her onset of depression and the multiple treatments she tried before finding success with electroconvulsive therapy. She also discusses why she decided to share her story after the deaths of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain in 2018.
“I’ve observed that many high-achieving people experience bouts of major depression, but we generally hide it from others…When we can no longer perform at such intense levels, depression convinces us that we are failures and worthless,” she writes. “In disclosing my illness to others, I’ve discovered that most people I know have been touched by mental illness in some way.”
To do more for people living with depression, Super argues that we need to reduce
stigma, make care more accessible and equitable, better support alternative treatment options, and explore social prescribing.
Today on Health Affairs Blog, Lucia Savage and Lisa Simpson discuss how the proposed Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, or
ARPA-H, aims to address long-standing challenges within the health research ecosystem.
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On Friday, December 3, 2021, you are invited to join Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil for the next installment of our Policy Spotlight series, featuring Daniel Tsai, Deputy Administrator and Director of the Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services (CMCS) at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
Please email your questions in advance to [email protected] and we will make every effort, in the limited time available, to have them addressed. First
priority will be given to topics relevant to the widest swath of the audience.
Date:Friday, December 3, 2021
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