"I'm on antidepressant therapy because of this," he said.
As an adjunct to standard antidepressant therapy in adult patients with major depressive disorder:
The findings could lead to more effective antidepressant therapies.
Lithium has been used to augment antidepressant therapy in those who have failed to respond to antidepressants alone.
Omega-3 fatty acids have been studied in clinical trials for major depression primarily as an adjunct to antidepressant therapy.
In addition, depressive groups with low folate concentrations responded less well to standard antidepressant therapy than did those with normal levels within plasma.
In their concern to help the patient, hospital staff sometimes show an unfortunate tendency to recommend the early introduction of antidepressant therapy.
Stopping antidepressant therapy can cause withdrawal effects as well as relapse, they say.
Some open-label uncontrolled studies have found it to possess value as an adjunct to antidepressant therapy.
The first month's antidepressant therapy should be watched extremely closely, but I found the drug's overall effectiveness to be revolutionarily good.