with severe and chronic Depression or Rapid Cycling Bipolar Disorder has spent m
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with severe and chronic Depression or Rapid Cycling Bipolar Disorder has spent many in therapy and tried various medications with no improvement of symptoms, which drastic 11. If a patient If a patient years treatment approach might be tried if the patient agrees to it? Watch the 2016 video linked in Moodle entitled, "Medications for Depression & Bipolar Disorder." As 12. watch, answer each of the following questions: a. What does Dr. McMullen say he treats most often? b. Bipolar(or I1) is the most severe, and Bipolar Disorder is (harder/easier?) to c. Which category of drugs is the "standard" used to treat depression? d. The most common medication added to an antidepressant is already working somewhat is you treat than (unipolar) depression. One benefit of combining two drugs at lower doses is... e. The general problem/issue/risk with using the stronger antidepressant drugs known as MAOI's iS. f. Lamotrigine (Lamictal) was originally used to treat but was discovered to improve depressive symptoms and especially those patients who are .. and it has fewer side effects than many other drugs. g. If nothing else works, he mentions adding certain medications (eg., Cytomel), or atypical(e.g, Zyprexal/Abilifty h. Low doses of may help with depression, whereas stronger doses are used for bipolar disorder.Explanation / Answer
11. Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) can provide relief for people with severe depression or bipolar disorder who have not been able to recover with other treatments.
12a. Dr. McMullen treats treatment resistant depression the most, both in people with unipolar depression and people that are bipolar.
12b. Bipolar I is the most severe, and Bipolar Disorder is harder to treat than unipolar depression.
12c. The standard category of drugs used to treat depression are SSRIs (Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors).
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