A media circus surrounded President Bill Clinton's visit to a New York medical centre in 2004 for a quadruple heart bypass. Yet barely a whisper was heard about other high-profile individuals' visits there for the treatment of psychiatric disorders.rnIn Britain, the public donates £500 million (US$800 million) each year to charities for cancer research. For mental-health research, the figure is a few million, and most of that is for work on neuro-degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, rather than for earlier-onset conditions that can undermine people's entire lives, such as depressive disorders.
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