A Clinical Experience With Depression

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Hi Erwina, Good morning. Thank you for sharing your interesting post about depression as well as your clinical experience with your patient who had a status post fracture and manifested with depression due to living in a new environment. I understand how your patient feel because when my father transferred to a skilled nursing facility and stayed for 30 days, he suffered a depression and with the medication that they gave him (Zoloft) he developed double vision and dizziness. His doctor discharged his medication and currently he is fine because we took him back home. One of the cases that I experienced was my patient, he suffered a depression and had been taking bupropion which is antidepressant and for smoking cessation (Morton,

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