On Episode 8, guests Dr. L Parker Gregg (https://us8.admin.mailchimp.com/campaigns/twitter.com/lparkergregg1) and patient advocate Nichole Jefferson (https://us8.admin.mailchimp.com/campaigns/twitter.com/nicholejeff) join us for a conversation about the importance of mental health in patients with kidney disease. Nichole shares with us the importance of attention to mental health and her journey from hemodialysis to peritoneal dialysis to 2 kidney transplants. We also discuss recent and upcoming research in this area. Links from the Show:04:05:  Rates of depression among patients with kidney disease (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5720531/)06:10:  National estimates of mental health needs among adults with chronic kidney disease (https://www.kireports.org/article/S2468-0249(22)01366-3/fulltext)06:41: The overlap of uremia and depression (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7302619/)09:28: The transition from dialysis to transplant (https://bmcnephrol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2369-15-191)13:48: The CAST trial: effect of sertraline in patients with chronic kidney disease (https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2661489)14:42: The ASCEND trial: cognitive behavioral therapy vs sertraline in patients on hemodialysis (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30802897/)17:46: Adverse effects associated with antidepressant use in patients with chronic kidney disease (https://academic.oup.com/ndt/article/27/10/3736/1828096)21:16: Resources for support for patients with kidney disease (https://www.kidney.org/peers)23:06 CONCORD study (https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04422652): Combination of Novel Therapies for CKD Comorbid Depression (https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04422652)