1.   There is no doubt that some depressed patients find more disturbed demented patients distressing.

2.   Two-thirds of depressed patients have family members who have suffered from depression.

3.   Most depressed patients are starving for human contact.

4.   Interpersonal arguments and difficulties were also a more common feature of the experiences of depressed patients than of the comparison group.

5.   Arthur Brody, an assistant professor of psychiatry at UCLA, recently did a similar study on a group of depressed patients.

6.   A deficit in serotonin is why some depressed patients require Prozac.

7.   But depressed people who enroll in antidepressant clinical trials are a very select group who are not representative of depressed patients in general.

8.   But the researchers found no evidence that the depressed patients in the study somehow needed to suffer.

9.   But why does it matter whether a depressed patient gets better on a placebo or an antidepressant?

10.   Chronically depressed patients have been known, after three to four months of regular exercise, to be able to reduce or even halt their medication.