Depression: The Times Investigates

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The newly formatted Times website is now up and running (although you may have to register to view it). The Mental Health Section takes a comprehensive look at depression.

If you go to your doctor feeling depressed, he is likely to issue you — or your son, your mother, your husband or your boss — with a pale green note that will be a passport to pharmacological contentment. Thanks to his prescription, you or your loved one will join the three million Britons who take antidepressants — maybe Prozac, Seroxat or Zoloft — as part of their daily routine, at a cost of about £300 million to the NHS. continue reading

Source: The Times