Showing posts with label bipolar depression. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bipolar depression. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Comments to Treating Bipolar Depression Article

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When Nassir Ghaemi MD of Tufts University was in residency at McLean Hospital, he assumed there was no harm in using antidepressants to treat bipolar depression. After all, "depression was depression," or so he and just about every clinician thought. ...

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Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Comments to Bipolar Depression Article

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Imagine for a second the psychiatric profession personified as Homer Simpson, with the trademark gesture of the hand smacking the forehead. The collective "Doh!" you hear is the seemingly overnight realization that depression rather than mania is the dominant partner in manic-depressive illness (bipolar disorder). ...

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