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Why did the psychiatrist or psychiatric nurse practitioner prescribe one antidepressant for my friend with depression, but a different one for someone else?

April 26, 2017antidepressant depression different friend nurse Practitioner prescribe psychiatric psychiatrist

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Why did the psychiatrist or psychiatric nurse practitioner prescribe one antidepressant for my friend with depression, but a different one for someone else?

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Joyce Seabolt Posted

Since there are many causes for depression, there also many treatment options.

A woman with post-partum depression is unlikely to need the same medicine as someone

suffering with bipolar disorder. Different patients, different diagnosis, different medications.

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• Responses to medication are highly individualized. A medicine that works well with one person may work very differently in a second person.