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- From: rind@enterprise.bih.harvard.edu (David Rind)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Depression; was: Re: Thyroid info needed
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- Date: 25 Jan 93 18:25:18 GMT
- References: <2445@hsdndev.UUCP> <1993Jan24.122313.652@news.wesleyan.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan24.122313.652@news.wesleyan.edu>
- RGINZBERG@eagle.wesleyan.edu (Ruth Ginzberg) writes:
- >Are you sure this is still true, even now, with the so-called 3rd generation
- >antidepressants available? My understanding is that Prozac is now one of the
- >10 most frequently prescribed drugs in the USA, & if you add that to Zoloft &
-
- I'm not suggesting that depression is a rare diagnosis -- rather that
- there is evidence that it is underdiagnosed. I doubt that this
- underdiagnosis has been due to lack of effective therapies.
-
- As you point out in another posting, there are a large number of
- conditions that can produce symptoms similar to depression. That
- does not mean that all of them have to be excluded prior to concluding
- that someone is suffering from depression any more than it is necessary
- to exclude familial mediterranean fever in every person who comes to
- a doctor's office febrile.
- --
- David Rind
- rind@binoc.bih.harvard.edu
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