A personal account of depressive illness and its antidepressant treatment
A personal account of depressive illness and its antidepressant treatment
Depression crept quietly over me as a shadow lengthens towards dusk. Probable
contributory factors include familial predisposition, multiple bereavement, physical illness and being abused on-line. The first few days of antidepressant drug treatment were unsettling, but I responded steadily, the medication side effects proved tolerable, and my depressive and anxiety symptoms had remitted within four weeks. Insights from literature were helpful in recovery. I hope this experience of illness and treatment will enhance my clinical practice and contribute to discussions about depression and antidepressant medicines.
depression, antidepressant, medical humanities, narrative medicine
286-290
Baldwin, David
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November 2019
Baldwin, David
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Baldwin, David
(2019)
A personal account of depressive illness and its antidepressant treatment.
International Clinical Psychopharmacology, 34 (6), , [ICP2867].
(doi:10.1097/YIC.0000000000000273).
Abstract
Depression crept quietly over me as a shadow lengthens towards dusk. Probable
contributory factors include familial predisposition, multiple bereavement, physical illness and being abused on-line. The first few days of antidepressant drug treatment were unsettling, but I responded steadily, the medication side effects proved tolerable, and my depressive and anxiety symptoms had remitted within four weeks. Insights from literature were helpful in recovery. I hope this experience of illness and treatment will enhance my clinical practice and contribute to discussions about depression and antidepressant medicines.
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Accepted/In Press date: 7 May 2019
e-pub ahead of print date: 27 June 2019
Published date: November 2019
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I work within a specialist service for patients with affective disorders, have researched and prescribed antidepressant medicines, was President of Depression Alliance and am a Medical Patron of Anxiety UK. I strive to provide comprehensive patient-centred clinical care, and adhere to no particular ideology about the nature, causes or treatment of mental disorders.
Keywords:
depression, antidepressant, medical humanities, narrative medicine
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/431383
ISSN: 0268-1315
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