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Carl Erik Fisher, author of this Opinion piece, is an associate professor of clinical psychiatry at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.

“There was a lot of social isolation, a lot of loneliness," said Columbia's Dr. Mark Olfson. "And those are things that psychotherapy is designed to address, in a way that medication can't."

“If you get through the first two years of this experience and feel like you have a future and have a sense of personhood, and you can be somebody—what a difference,” said OnTrackNY's Dr. Lisa Dixon.

A Columbia study revealed that antidepressants that exclusively interact with intestinal cells could be far more effective in treating depression and anxiety and result in fewer digestive issues.