DocEarp's Cyberspace

        Welcome to DocEarp's Cyberspace. A physician in my 50's, I hope to provide insight and new perspectives on a variety of topics such as medicine, science, nature and spirituality. I will rely on the memory and notes of nearly 35 years caring for people. I would like to offer and share, however seemingly convoluted, thoughts, events, commentary and stories which comprise my world.

Monday, May 05, 2008

Feeling Depressed? Revisited

Since writing and posting the discussion on depression, Scientific American magazine has published an excellent article reviewing depression. It goes over a lot of material which I presented but it more specifically addresses the DSM criteria for the diagnosis and also discusses the probable increased number of folks diagnosed with depression due to changes in criteria for same.

It further discusses medication in more detail than I presented and also presents a fairly cogent argument that too many Americans are medicated with antidepressants.

Here is the link: Scientific American Magazine article on Depression

It is well worth reading and I highly recommend it.

Dr. Dennis

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