Depression: What is it? Why Drug Treatment
A great deal has been written on the subject of defining the medical illness of depression. That is not a main theme of this website, nor do I profess to…
A great deal has been written on the subject of defining the medical illness of depression. That is not a main theme of this website, nor do I profess to…
Descriptions of depression from literature I particularly recommended (passages from) three books: 1. An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison 2. John Stuart Mill,…
The relationship between these domains has been a topic of debate throughout the history of psychiatry. A few words about stress and depressive illness may be helpful.A state of increased…
AnalogiesI have often been told by patients that the analogies I use to explain things are helpful: I will therefore list some of them here. The symptoms of the illness…