Of course, habeebati: this is one place where I'm not just volunteering to take on the onus of education, but where I cannot help but take it on and sometimes bring a couple burros to help me carry the load as far as it can go. ;) It was written in response to a number of articles and columns written from supposedly sensitive points of view that still perpetuate narratives about mental illness being different than "real" physical illnesses. This one (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christina-grasso/what-robin-williams-untim_b_5675183.html) was the one that demanded response, written by a self-described diagnosed neuroatypical (anorexia nervosa) who somehow still believes that "Mental illness is just that -- mental. It rarely manifests in the physical." Even more maddening is the timestamp: the news that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease, which differential diagnosis requiring 3-5 years of positive response of symptoms (including MDD) to treatments with dopamine-agonists (aka the family of medicines also used to relieve symptoms of dopagenic-reactive depression) had broken more than six hours before the column came out. Sorry... that part gets a little personal for me -- to the point where I didn't realize I wasn't logged in.