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The Digital Age has changed everything. Mental illness is nothing like what it was even twenty years ago. Since the advent of the Internet, suicide rates have soared. Depression has become the single most debilitating disease in the world.
Elliott B. Martin, Jr. is Director of Medical Psychiatry at Newton-Wellesley Hospital, part of the Mass General Brigham integrated healthcare system in the Boston area. He is also an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine, USA. He is board-certified in general psychiatry, child and adolescent psychiatry, and addiction medicine. Prior to his return to medical school, he was a linguist and philologist. He has published over 50 articles in academic and popular journals, including research on clinician emotions during crises, philosophical and moral issues in medicine, the history of medicine and psychiatry, translations of ancient medical texts, and critical commentaries on current issues in psychiatry and medicine. He is a regular contributor to the Psychiatric Times and Op-Med.