Wednesday, January 04, 2006

Poverty Limits Efficacy of Treatment for Depression - CME Teaching Brief - MedPage Today

Poverty Limits Efficacy of Treatment for Depression - CME Teaching Brief - MedPage Today: "Recognize that older depressed patients living in low-income areas may have a poor response rate to pharmacologic and talk therapy for depression and are more likely to report suicidal ideation. "

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Blogger Muna wa Wanjiru said...

My mother was severely depressed all the years we were growing up. I carried on the tradition, feeling chronically, clinically depressed and seeking a cure for my depression for over twenty-five years. I was, oddly enough, one of the “lucky” ones: my depression was partner to an equally common disorder called Attention Deficit Disorder.

So though I was at first treated only for the cure for depression alone, with Prozac, which saved me from offing myself but added a hundred pounds to my already hefty frame, I was eventually (in my early forties) treated for ADD with medication that took away the depression for the most part. Some days I can hear it coming, can feel in my gut the angst churning and brewing, but can embrace it for what it is, climb in bed with books and toys and whatever other comfort items I choose, and ride that bitch of a malady out. For it does pass. And as to a “cure” for depression, I still say really good drugs help.


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