On Fri, 16 Aug 1996 09:29:30 +0100, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> I wish
>I could tell just some of the horror stories we have to deal with.
>Graham Ross
>ALeRT
>
I was amazed at the Pulse article about your campaign. It's not that
antidepressants aren't sometimes prescribed inappropriately, it's just
that everyone agrees that the main problem is that they are not
prescribed enough. Depression is a serious illness which has generally
been grossly under diagnosed by GPs and hospital doctors alike.
Traditionally drugs were reserved for "endogenous" depression , but in
fact the trend nowadays amongst psychiatrists is towards also using
them in milder depressed states. You seem to have got hold of the
wrong end of the stick - or perhaps you one of those people keen to
deny the existence of depression as a medical illness.
>From pulse:
>Mr Ross told Pulse: "We've got a 19-year old girl with depression
>shortly after she split up with her boyfriend. She was put on long term
>medication for what is surely a common teenage problem"
Upset over splitting up with boyfriends is common, but so is suicide
due to depression, which may well have been precipitated by such an
incident.
If you were setting up a campaign based on cases of failure to
diagnose and treat depression I could understand it - but perhaps that
would be giving you ideas.......
Dr David Evans
Cardiff
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