What’s the connection between Depression, antipsychotics, and suicide risk?
Is it really treatment-resistant depression or are we using the wrong treatments?
In this episode, Dr. Bret Scher is joined by psychiatrist Dr. Georgia Ede to examine a new large, population-based analysis on the use of antipsychotics versus third-line antidepressants in people diagnosed with treatment-resistant depression, and what effect that has on suicide risk.
They discuss:
What treatment-resistant depression actually means
Why so many people fall into this category
The surprising data on suicide risk and all-cause mortality
The metabolic side effects of antipsychotic medications…
The skinny
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