Depression, Counseling, and Medication
(A disclaimer: I am not a physician and cannot prescribe any medications. But I collaborate with doctors on a regular basis regarding the patients we are mutually treating and I have no shortage of opinions on the subject.) Major depressive episode has been called the “common cold of mental illness” because it is estimated that [...]
Anti-Depressant Medication
Major Depression has been called the common cold of mental illness. Depending on which studies one references, somewhere between 15% and 25% of Americans have experienced an episode of Major Depression at some point in their lifetime. Split the difference and call it one out of five. One of the most common forms of treatment [...]
Depression: Disease or Not?
John Grohol had an entry on his blog the other day worth reading: …we shouldn’t rush to label mental disorders as diseases when the evidence really isn’t there. But his own point, that depression in everyone is simply a “normal… human reaction” seems equally simplistic and an absurd deconstruction. I know this is what passes [...]
