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My son has had chronic, low-grade depression for years, he recently experienced a debilitating episode, what to do?
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Does he have a : Double depression? (chronic low grade depression with an overlying major depressive episode.) the most important thing about depression is that it needs to be treated aggressively. Is he working with a therapist or a psychiatrist? Is he taking psychiatric medications? Don't know if he is a teen, child or adult. If he is child/teen would encourage evaluation by a child psychiatrist. Take care.
Answered 2/5/2014
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Therapy?: Have you yet tried any form of psychotherapy? Typically, the optimal combination of things to treat emotional issues such as dysthymia is medication (which, on your best day, is supposed to take the edge off symptoms) but the real gruntwork takes place in psychotherapist's consulting room.
Answered 3/8/2015
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