The one good thing to have emerged from the tragic story of Sarah Lawson is proper discussion about depression.

Sarah was killed by her father because she suffered so terribly from depression and had begged him to help her die.

Today Vanora Leigh writes for The Argus with searing honesty about her own long battle with depression.

Many famous people have suffered from it including Sir Winston Churchill and Diana, Princess of Wales.

Depression makes no distinction between rich and poor, or young and old. Its effects can be as devastating as those of cancer.

What the case of Sarah Lawson teaches us is that we must acknowledge it as a serious disease and not sweep it under the carpet because it cannot be seen as readily as shingles or Parkinson's disease.

We must also devote the same kind of cash and care to treating it as to reducing cancer or heart disease. It affects just as many people.