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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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[Star Trek] With all of the treatments undoubtedly available for anxiety and depressive disorders, why does Reginald Barclay continue to suffer?
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Reg Barclay suffered because his prior command officers found it easier to bury the issue and shuffle him off somewhere else than to deal with him and his problems, causing him to "fail upwards" instead of really developing. Picard, not having that buck-passing garbage, invested time and energy in the man; as others have noted, by the time of Voyager he's massively improved personally and professionally.