Posted by CaptainAmerica1967 on January 12, 2009, at 15:11:28
In reply to Re: MAOI TX in Severe+Resistant Depression » CaptainAmerica1967, posted by Sissy35 on January 12, 2009, at 0:53:51
"Double Depression" is basically is major depression coupled with something called dysthymia. Dysthymia is considered to be a "chronic depression" and sometimes a low grade depression or mild one although the low grade may not be true.
So you have a life long chronic depression (dysthymia) and then get symptoms or eipsodes of an even worse depression (major depression) and it's called doulbe depression. However, if you have treatment resistant depression your entire life (like myself since the age of 15) and your depression is chronic anyways, you still can get episodes of depression being more severe so I'm not sure how they distinguish the double depression from treatment resistant depression unless the dysthymia was diagnosed in childhood or early adulthood.
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