I don't have much to say about this articleexcept that hopefully it will help someone else out there because in my case, its purported solution is completely untrue.
Whatever thoughts give rise to feelings of impending doom and disaster when the days start getting shorter are buried well below my conscious mind, unavailable to be written down on paper. And while I don't use a light box (keep forgetting to look into buying one) I do keep up with all my summer activities during the winter...to no effect.
Monday, February 26, 2007
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Sucker!
My memory is fuzzy due to several reasons, depression being just one of them, but I'm pretty sure I was excited when I heard, a couple of years ago, about the STAR*D study being done by NIMH. This was going to be the end all, be all study, the mother and father of all studies done ever on depression.
Shouldn't have gotten my hopes up.
From what I can see, the best news to come out of this comprehensive study is that genetic variation is a factor in treatment resistant depression. Most of the articles indicate the results as sobering; I could tell you more about them but I stopped reading after the word 'sobering' which in most cases means I quit after the first sentence.
The O magazine issue that first clued me in to the study results (which, FYI, isn't up on their website yet) had the best punchline:
"No one in this field is satisfied with the status quo...we know we need better treatments but we still have to identify the brain patterns and genetic markers that will help us get there."
In other words, we still can't help you. Or, as someone said
"If there are many treatments for a disease, you can be sure there is no cure."
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