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Discover NIMH: A Former Patient Feels Hope Through Research

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>> MJ CROMM: As a patient who goes to the doctor who has depression, you don't hear about all of the really cutting-edge things that are-- that are being investigated and that might really help you. Hearing about all of that really made me feel like there was hope. Just because I had tried several antidepressants, and none of them had worked, that didn't mean that I was incurable, that I was never gonna feel better.