Seeing Beyond Depression

I was a young doctor in 1990 when I met a patient with rheumatoid arthritis. Mrs. P told me quietly but in no uncertain terms that she ticked all the boxes for a diagnosis of co-occurring depression. When I reported this to the senior physician in charge of her case, he said: "Well, you would too, wouldn't you?" and changed the subject. He meant that her mood was obviously a reasonable reflection on her current state of disability and a future of inexorably deteriorating health and mobility. Mrs. P was "understandably" depressed because she was thinking about, and ruminating on, what it meant to have an inflammatory disorder. And so there was nothing we physicians could do about it. It was a matter of the mind, not of the body—the province of psychiatry.

Joseph C. Phillips, Former ‘Cosby Show’ Speaks out: ‘Of course Bill Cosby is guilty’

Someone else has stepped for to make claims the Bill Cosby allegations are true— and it's a former male co-star.

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Joseph C. Phillips, who played Cosby's son-in-law Martin Kendall on "The Cosby Show," took to his blog to share his feelings about the comedian in a post titled, "Of Course Bill Cosby Is Guilty."

Line after line, Phillips describes how much he looks up to the actor and idolized him, even before they worked together on the show.

"He was my boyhood idol. His influence on my life has been profound. I owe much of who I am to Bill Cosby, so the idea of love seems to fall short of exactly how I feel," he wrote. "The Cos was a ladies man, but also good father and husband - devoted to his wife and children. Bill was educated; he collected art and was fluent in jazz. After my father, Bill Cosby was the man I aspired to be. Few get an opportunity to meet their idol, much less work with them. I was blessed in that regard, and even more blessed that I found my idol as clever, kind and brilliant as I had imagined."