Posted by Paulbwell on August 12, 2006, at 4:10:28
In reply to Re: What stage of treatment-resistance are you?, posted by jerrympls on August 12, 2006, at 3:04:57
> > What stage of treatment-resistance are you?
> >
> >
> > * Stage 1: Failure of an adequate trial of 1 class of major antidepressant
> >
> > * Stage 2: Failure of adequate trials of 2 distinctly different classes of antidepressant
> >
> > * Stage 3: Stage 2 plus failure of a third class of antidepressant, including a tricyclic antidepressant (TCA)
> >
> > * Stage 4: Stage 3 plus failure of an adequate trial of a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI)
> >
> > * Stage 5: Stage 4 plus failure of an adequate course of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
> >
> >
> > - Scott
>
> Stage Six: All of the above plus the VNS Implant.Come on Jerry-stop feeling so damn sorry for yrself-you gots your Hydro-maybe another Narcotic, or Gog forbid brain cautarisition-aka modern lobertomery-you done ECT?
Time heals
Cheers
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