[4] As I have said before, I am not rigidly against the use of antidepressants per se. Some of my depressed patients did indeed respond positively to treatments other than…
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Considering the Use of Drugs in DID Treatment: Part 5 – Diagnostic Bias in Files
Few people outside the psychiatric and pharmaceutical communities know how common the practice of stretching and bending the meaning of words is in medical files. That practice is influenced quite…
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Considering the Use of Drugs in DID Treatment: Part 4 – Understanding the Clinical Presentation
[3] When a patient has made repeated suicide attempts, that patient is often labeled with the diagnosis of depression as part of a Bipolar or DID diagnosis. As we have…
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Considering the Use of Drugs in DID Treatment: Part 3 – The Widespread Prescribing of Antidepressants
According to Paul W. Andrews, an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behavior at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada: Antidepressant medication is the most commonly prescribed treatment for…
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Considering the Use of Drugs in DID Treatment: Part 2 – Depression and Antidepressants
We often find these 2 words, depression and antidepressants, spoken in the same breath. Why is this a problem? Because always coupling them together erroneously implies that depression is a…
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