J.K. Rowling and Depression

At the risk of sounding like Bridget Jones' mother ("Have you had...suicidal thoughts?"), I wanted to give kudos to J.K. Rowling for talking frankly about her depression when she was a single parent. I hope we are moving past the more outdated, narrow-minded views of emotional troubles to a time of more understanding about these kind of things, including the fact that depression and other disorders can run in families and that a great deal of these things are treatable in various ways, and can even be due to chemical imbalances. I'm glad for the changing temper of the media towards such things, too; someone who seeks therapy or other help for emotional problems need never again be branded as "crazy"--just a person seeking help, as they would for a physical illness.