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Easy Mood Monitoring
Patients who have previously been treated for depression sometimes find it difficult to tell when their symptoms are returning.
Patients who have previously been treated for depression sometimes find it difficult to tell when their symptoms are returning. To help such patients monitor their symptoms, have them use a self-scoring depression inventory, such as the Beck Depression Inventory or the Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale, once a week. Give them a cutoff score (eg, 10 on the Beck Depression Inventory) that signals a need to talk to you about possibly restarting their medication.
- Richard Honaker, MD Carrollton, Tex
Podcast: Arthritis, Anxiety, and Depression: Managing a Common Comorbidity
May 14th 2012Anxiety is even more common than depression among people who have arthritis, a new study has shown. Here to discuss the implications for diagnosis and treatment is Eilzabeth Lin MD, a family medicine physician who is a longstanding researcher in the field of depression and pain.
