Risk of Relapse Drops If Depression Completely Resolves [PsychCentral.com]

Samantha Sangenito 10/29/154:00 AM

Traditional medical opinion has held that people who have experienced an episode of major depression are at high risk for having another episode.

New research suggests this may not always be the case as researchers discovered the risk of depression recurrence is significantly lower for people with complete, rather than partial depressive symptom resolution.

The findings, by researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have been published online in theJournal of Clinical Psychiatry.

Investigators believe their findings should lead to a new clinical definition of what constitutes the end of a major depressive episode both in terms of symptom expression and duration.

[For more of this story, written by Rick Nauert, go to http://psychcentral.com/news/2...y-resolve/94089.html]

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Clinicians also have to be aware and take note of what seemingly caused the depression and to advice the patient not to return to the same situation if that is the aggravating factor - work , partners etc, if there is not to be a reoccurrence of depression.

I have some doubts as to some clinicians really wanting to know if their patient has fully 'recovered' - or not. It's a busy industry!

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