If the Depression Continues, Then What?
I remember all too well years ago the advertisements in psychiatric journals stating that antidepressants will "restore the person within the patient," and although these medications have indeed made a dramatic difference in the outcome of depressive illness, they are by no means the miracle drugs that some thought them to be. In fact, a paltry 30 percent of depressed clients achieve remission (defined as a 50 percent reduction in the severity of symptoms via rating scale determination) on their [...]