Switching Antidepressant: References

Definitions

Augment: To add another medication or therapy to current medication.

Response: Some depressive symptoms improve, but you're still not back to your old self.

Remission: All of your depressive symptoms have improved and you feel like your old self.

Maintenance: Use of medication for at least nine months, sometimes years or even a lifetime, to prevent another depressive episode.

Treatment-resistant depression. Generally described as failing two or more adequate trials of antidepressants.

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