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...Bear’s Place. $8. (KF)Friday, Nov. 25Buskin & Batteau and Family & Friends. One of folk music’s favorite acoustic duos brings you a family and friends Thanksgiving weekend reunion, including a rare solo acoustic appearance by Robin Lane, John Parker Compton and “Appaloosa,” David Batteau and “Batteaux,” “Rockabetty” with Yani Batteau and others. Sanders Theatre. 8 p.m. Tickets available through the Harvard Box Office, (617) 496-2222. $27/23. (KAF)Karacter CD Release Party. This night celebrates the CD release...
...your brain." The Australian mental health lobby group beyondblue is slightly more circumspect in its literature, saying "severe depression appears to be associated with a reduction in the chemicals of the brain." Depression comes in various types and shouldn't be thought of as an "it," says Gordon Parker, a professor in the school of psychiatry at the University of New South Wales. But because the more severe form tends to run in families and involves physical symptoms such as sleep and appetite disturbance, and because its onset can't be explained as a reaction to a traumatic event such...
...rare are cases like Beddoe's? "We see them quite often," says N.S.W. University's Parker, a psychiatrist for 30 years and director of the Black Dog Institute, a not-for-profit research, educational and clinical body specializing in mood disorders. "We see depressed people who've been undertreated and others whose illness is not quintessentially biological," yet their treatment has amounted to "the relentless pursuit of one physical treatment after another." Parker's experience is that, shortly after starting a course of SSRIs, about 7% of patients feel agitation ranging from moderate to profound, while an additional...
...Recent reviews of the data from SSRI trials indicate that placebos are on average 80% as effective as the drugs. But this is misleading, argues Parker. The typical subject in the trials, he says, did not have the more serious melancholic depression that doctors invariably treat with drugs but a milder form more likely to resolve spontaneously or from non-drug therapies. A view common among doctors is that if antidepressant trials looked exclusively at people with melancholic depression, the gap in efficacy between the drug and a placebo would widen...
...suspects doctors are overprescribing antidepressants across the board. "It's important they distinguish between normal sadness and clinical depression," she says. "We all need to feel sad sometimes. We don't want a society in which people run off to get prescribed rather than feel normal emotions." While Parker acknowledges that sometimes people who don't need SSRIs receive them, he doesn't think the drugs should be confined to those with severe depression. "Anxious worriers are the new breed of depression," he says. "They're the ones for whom it's nothing like as gray, and the suicide risk...