[mulan]

I found this article and I thought it may interest someone. It is a research on depression types. https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog...m_source=quora

My doctors have said I'm clinically depressed, but never called it "major depression". Then the author of the article tries to push medication and exercise...
However, I still think they are handing out the diagnosis willy nilly.

[Fuzzybear]

[Rohag]

Thank you, Mulan. That definitely is an interesting article.

The study on which the Psychology Today article is based is available free online at PubMed.gov - PubMed Central (check the upper right of the abstract page for the link to the pdf).

Here's an excerpt from the abstract:

Biomarkers have transformed modern medicine but remain largely elusive in psychiatry, partly because there is a weak correspondence between diagnostic labels and their neurobiological substrates. Like other neuropsychiatric disorders, depression is not a unitary disease, but rather a heterogeneous syndrome that encompasses varied, co-occurring symptoms and divergent responses to treatment. By using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in a large multisite sample (n = 1,188), we show here that patients with depression can be subdivided into four neurophysiological subtypes ('biotypes') defined by distinct patterns of dysfunctional connectivity in limbic and frontostriatal networks.

Would I be willing to spend time in an MRI to find out which one of their depression subtypes/biotypes I am? Maybe...

[little turtle]

I like the information about 4 types...but I want to know what CAUSED my depression...and why I cant get off my 5mg of celexa...I need help here...