Like so much in popular culture the phrase "treatment
		resistant" is a form of blaming the victim.  Rather
		than calling the depression "as yet ineffectively 
 		treated," we emphasize that there is something wrong 
		with the patient.  Treatment resistant depression is much 
		like lost objects. Treatment resistant depressions 
		respond to the last treatment administered, and lost 
		objects are found in the the last place looked.  Of course
		there are small number of depressions that never respond 
		to treatment just as there are some objects we lose 
		around our houses that never turn up. 
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> > ||                          Ivan Goldberg, MD                ~          ||