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Antidepressants and Frustrated that you can't Lose Weight?
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Goldberg, Confirmation via Med Response? RogueFemale2 posted: No
respectable psychiatrist would make a diagnosis of a complex
psychiatric disorder based on a patient's response to a
medication, alone (or at least I WANT to believe that is true),
but to what degree does medication response help to support or
even confirm a suspected diagnosis, when considered alongside
other symptoms?  I limped through several years of what doctors
thought was "just" recurrent agitated depressions before a
psychiatrist finally tried Depakote during a hospitalization
several years ago. My response to that medication was so
dramatically positive that, as my doctor told me later, it
helped to bolster his suspicions that my mood and motor issues
fell within the bipolar, rather than unipolar, spectrum. All I
know is that when I took antidepressants alone, my