Antidepressant medication is one of the most common interventions taken to beat depression. Most people who have struggled with chronic depression or episodic depression will undertake one or possibly several courses of antidepressant medications in their lifetime. When depression is severe medication can be useful and sometimes even life-saving. For people with bipolar, a … [Read more...]
Melancholic Depression
Melancholic depression is a hard and distressing type of depression, generally diagnosed amongst older people; it may have a unipolar or bipolar course. It is a relatively uncommon diagnosis. Major depression has five subtypes, called specifiers by the DSM. These are melancholic depression, atypical depression, catatonic depression, postpartum depression and seasonal … [Read more...]