31.   That discovery came when a scientist monitoring depressed patients taking Wellbutrin noted that some also quit smoking.

32.   That got her placed in the locked ward of Cedars-Sinai Hospital with other severely depressed patients.

33.   The panel concluded that, while some depressed patients attempt suicide, there was no evidence that Prozac itself causes suicide.

34.   They compared a group of clinically depressed patients with supposedly normal people and found that the nondepressed group had an exaggerated opinion of their abilities and social skills.

35.   Typically, only a third of depressed patients tell their doctors that they feel depressed.

36.   Yet even as awareness increased, few drugs were available for depressed patients.

37.   Yet scientists are far from knowing exactly what such findings mean for depressed patients.

38.   A Dutch court on Monday acquitted a doctor who helped his depressed patient commit suicide even though the man was not suffering unbearable physical pain.

39.   Drug therapy is now available for professionally diagnosed depressed patients.

40.   He also said that while an antidepressant might not perform much better than a placebo in mildly depressed people, the difference can be large in severely depressed patients.