Enhancing Patients' Motivation and Empowerment: A Resident’s Perspective
March 22nd 2024Empowerment has a significant correlation with patients’ overall mental and physical well-being, and has been central to the shift in conceptual framework of mental illness recovery towards a focus on resilience, strength, and control over one’s life.
Augmentation Strategies for Treatment-Resistant Depression
March 19th 2024Given that two-thirds of patients treated for a major depressive episode will fail to achieve remission of symptoms after 2 or more treatment trials of first-line antidepressants, the probability of remission will further decrease with subsequent medication trials. Treatment strategies for patients with TRD include augmentation, where a medication is added to a current antidepressant versus switching to a different antidepressant.