Posted by Psychquackery on August 24, 2003, at 22:59:38
This article, by noted ECT doctor Max Fink claims that many cases of "treatment resistant depression" may in fact be psychotic depression. Fink explains that TRDepression cannot adequately be treated by antidepressants alone and that the only treatment which results in remission is ECT.
Fink explains that the neuroendocrine system of individuals with TRD and psychotic depression are profoundly disturbed to the point that drugs just dont work. And only ECT will work. Fink calls for earlier use of ECT in TRD cases, to prevent chronic disability from setting in.
Read the article here:
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URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20030823/msgs/253709.html