Clinical importance of long-term antidepressant treatment
- 1 September 2001
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 179 (S42) , s4-s8
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.179.42.s4
Abstract
Background Depression, which only a few decades ago was considered to be a short-term illness requiring short-term treatment, is now recognised as a recurrent, sometimes chronic, long-term illness.Keywords
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