Posted by fuchsia on August 4, 2006, at 19:56:19
In reply to What stage of treatment-resistance are you?, posted by SLS on August 4, 2006, at 8:48:06
> What stage of treatment-resistance are you?
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> * Stage 1: Failure of an adequate trial of 1 class of major antidepressant
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> * Stage 2: Failure of adequate trials of 2 distinctly different classes of antidepressant
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> * Stage 3: Stage 2 plus failure of a third class of antidepressant, including a tricyclic antidepressant (TCA)
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> * Stage 4: Stage 3 plus failure of an adequate trial of a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI)
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> * Stage 5: Stage 4 plus failure of an adequate course of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
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If one has a hypomanic response is that classed as'failure'?
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