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 up [...]
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 [...]
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 for rational [...]
