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From: lee@unmvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.suicide
Subject: Re: Clinical Depression
Message-ID: <310@unmvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 26-Apr-84 01:48:04 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 26 01:48:04 1984
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I am a Social Worker and am in charge of a psychiatric out-patient clinic.
I have worked in the psychiatric field for 20 years.  In my experience
doctors do customarily use psycho-active drugs in depressions which are 
severe or at least moderately severe.  

As far as mental illness being related to dietary deficiency, that is possibly
true; the facts aren't in yet but research points to that.  However, Lithium
is not really a part of the normal diet. Lithium is a metal used to treat
mostly bipolar disorders (formerly known as manic-depressive disorders)
and is now also being used to treat some other disorders, which I will
not go into here.

			Dolores Ward

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That was my mom speaking (hi world I am Lee). I'll forward reasonable
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			--Lee (Ward)

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			--Lee (Ward)
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