Other barriers reported by patients include the belief it is not the primary care physician’s job to deal with emotional issues<\/strong> (16 percent) and concerns about medical record confidentiality (15 percent). Other concerns reported by at least 10 percent of respondents included fear of referral to a counselor or psychiatrist, and being labeled a psychiatric patient<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The authors note that ironically, those who most subscribed to potential reasons for not talking to a primary care physician about their depression tended to be those who had the greatest potential to benefit from such conversations<\/strong> — individuals with moderate to severe depressive symptoms.<\/p>\n The authors call for the development of office-based interventions that address these patient concerns and encourage patients with depression symptoms to begin a conversation with their doctors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n “Suffering in Silence: Reasons for Not Disclosing Depression in Primary Care”, by Robert A. Bell, Ph. D., et al. University of California, Davis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From the American Academy of Family Physicians media release: Many adults subscribe to beliefs that inhibit them from disclosing symptoms of depression to their primary care physician. In a survey… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[345,10,60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14981"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14981"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15098,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14981\/revisions\/15098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"doctor_with_patient\"](\"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/doctor_with_patient.jpg\")
<\/a>Many adults subscribe to beliefs that inhibit them from disclosing symptoms of depression to their primary care physician. In a survey of 1,054 adults, 43 percent of patients reported one or more reasons for not talking to a primary care physician about their depression<\/strong>, with the most frequently cited reason being concern the physician would recommend antidepressants (23 percent).<\/p>\n