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Don't be fooled. Atypical depression is actually the most common subtype of depression in outpatients, according to Andrew Nierenberg MD, Associate Director of the Depression and Clinical Research Program at Massachusetts General Hospital, affecting anywhere from 25 to 42 percent of the depressed population.
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Wednesday, January 7, 2009
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I was originally diagnosed with atypical depression in the mid '80s. An on-call doc who evaluated me during a hospitalization in 2004 gave me a dx of borderline personality disorder which was abhorrent to me, but I didn't have the umph to get it stricken from the medical chart. I was on Parnate in the 80s and several other drugs that didn't work for many years. Since 2006, I've been back on Parnate, a foreign word to many young pharamcists and psychiatrists. I used to only be able to tolerate 20 mg. Now I take 40. (I've also been diagnosed with ADD.) Problem is now I can't get to sleep without taking trazodone and clonazepam. So many drugs. Any comments. BTW, I'm more or less in recovery, but definitely have good days and bad days often depending on how socially isolated I am. I'm single, have one daughter, no other family, which, I think creates a very challenging situation for a person with severe depression. Comments on drugs/sleep? Anything would be helpful. Deb
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