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What stage of treatment-resistance are you?

Posted by SLS on August 4, 2006, at 8:48:06

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

 

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