Depression should not be taken lightly. For kids? sakes particularly, we should be very aggressive in treating patients, particularly mothers. The more improved care we can provide to depressed mothers, the more benefit to their children.

About a third of the patients achieved remission. An additional 10 to 15 percent achieved a response.

The old philosophy was that parents, especially mothers, caused their kids to become schizophrenic. Now we see that when a kid is this crazy, he'll make the family begin to seem crazy.

We felt that there was a tremendous need to form a group for new mothers experiencing depression. Maternity stays are so short that doctor's often don't see depression symptoms in the hospital. Many times, women are diagnosed after they leave.

It's popular with young mothers because they do all that carting and carpooling of kids.

That's what it's going to take - veterans groups, veterans and mothers who have lost kids speaking out.