Posted by Squiggles on August 14, 2007, at 11:53:07
In reply to Re: Are there statistics on misdiagnoses? » Squiggles, posted by Phillipa on August 14, 2007, at 11:44:37
> Squiggles also some people have an isolated depression that doesn't return when the crisis or whatever is over or life circumstances change. Phillipa
Yup, that i have come across in reading cases;
even Kraepelin noticed that there can be a circularity to severe depression which spreads as far apart as 10 years. Depression need not be continuous, can be post-traumatic, can even be biologically dispersed through life, though possibly genetically chronic.Much of the clinical treatment of depression with meds every day is an expedient practice. It's a very difficult area of medicine diagnostic-wise.
I recently saw something about a new antidepressant that acts immediately, sort of like Xanax acts immediately for panic. That sounds interesting-- forget the name.
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