If anti-psychotics aren’t working to help people recover from depression, maybe you should just ride with it. Is depression good for you?
“Don’t beat yourself up about being depressed, in most cases it will run its course” says Dr Paul Keedwell. Keedwell is an expert on mood disorders at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. He says that all people are vulnerable to depression in the face of stress to varying degrees, and always have been.
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March 17, 2008 at 2:55 pm
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