The Lead · Treatment-resistant depression
When the antidepressants stop working, that is a starting point, not the end.
About a third of people with major depression do not improve on the first two medications they try. A growing number of St. Charles County clinics now treat that as the beginning of a real plan.
1 in 3 people with major depression are not helped by the first two medications they try.
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