Depression symptoms continue for many despite use of antidepressants ?

Q."The field is moving from just thinking about symptoms and whether your sleep has improved or whether your anxiety symptoms are a little less to actually asking the question: 'How are you doing in your everyday life? How are you managing in the workforce? Are you able to pay the bills when the envelopes come in or are they piling up in your living room?'

A.An estimated two million Canadians have chronic depression and the debilitating condition may be under-treated, a study suggests. It found that fatigue, lack of energy and poor sleep continued to plague many patients despite the use of antidepressants. The study, conducted by the Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments, involved a cross-Canada phone survey earlier this year of more than 6,400 adults and was designed to find out how people diagnosed with depression were faring with their treatments and how depression affected their lives. Less than one-third of the 434 respondents who said they had been diagnosed with depression and were taking antidepressants reported alleviation of some key symptoms of the condition - fatigue, lack of energy, anxiety and impaired concentration, said Dr. Sidney Kennedy, chief psychiatrist at Toronto's University Health Network and a principal investigator of the study.

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