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? ===================================================== Dr David J PLews [log in to unmask] (but not for much longer?) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%