"The depressed person should be encouraged to obey the doctor's orders about the use of alcoholic products while on medication."

"For individuals with bipolar disorder and those with chronic or recurrent major depression, medication may have to be maintained indefinitely."

 

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Experts Question Study On Youth Suicide Rates
Experts are questioning a study’s linking a 2004 increase in the suicide rate for children and adolescents to a warning by drug regulators about the use of antidepressants in minors.
OP-ED COLUMNIST; Terror and Demons
Having read about Carol Ann Gotbaum, I did something I rarely do. I went back and read my mother’s suicide note....
CASES; Missing a Diagnosis That Hit Too Close to Home
Treating V.I.P. or celebrity patients sometimes short-circuits a physician’s normal diagnostic thinking.
SELF-NONMEDICATION
When my life fell apart, I started taking an antidepressant — then got off it on my own.
Male Depression Is Linked To Poor Sibling Relations
Men who had poor relationships with siblings during childhood are at greater risk for depression in adulthood than those who got along better, a new study has found.
BEHAVIOR; To Reap Psychotherapy's Benefits, Get a Good Fit
If the outcome may be months or years away, how can a person tell whether his psychotherapy is any good?

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"Patients with minor depression who seek treatment from family doctors are often treated with prescription antidepressants, if their mood disorder is diagnosed at all."

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  • NIMH-sponsored studies estimate that 6 percent of 9- to 17-year-olds in the United States and almost 10 percent of American adults, or about 19 million people age 18 and older, experience some form of depression every year.
  • Substantial evidence from neuroscience, genetics, and clinical investigation shows that depressive illnesses are disorders of the brain.
  • Over 70 percent of older suicide victims visit their primary care physician within the month of their death; many have a depressive illness that goes undetected during these visits.
  • Research has revealed that people with alcoholism are almost twice as likely as those without alcoholism to also suffer from major depression.
  • An NIMH funded clinical trial of 439 adolescents with major depression found that a combination of medication and psychotherapy is the most effective treatment.

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Pediatrics Healthcare

"In the United States, researchers estimate that in any given one year period, depressive illnesses affect 12 percent of women (more than 12 million women) and nearly 7 percent of men (more than six million men)."

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"In some families, depressive disorders seem to occur generation after generation; however, they can also occur in people with no family history of these illnesses."

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