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Who tries the anti-depressant - doctor or patient?

Stephen Crawshaw
Townsville
Australia.

In your message dated Monday 8, July 1996 Sam M wrote :
> Just a suggestion for a name for patients who, on recovering from one
> usually rather nebulous complaint immediately develope another
> unrelated ailment and so on and on.......  I have several such. Does
> anyone else and is there another name for these unfortunates? - not
> quite hypochondriasis or Munchausen's. They are very difficult to deal
> with.

Aren't they called "heart sink" patients?
Try an antidepressant?

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Dr David J PLews
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