From Response to Remission: Personalizing Depression Care Through Patient Dialogue

Depression's cardinal symptoms are often invisible to the patient reporting them. Dr. Harding and Dr. Citrome examine why diagnosis, not treatment, remains psychiatry's hardest task, and how family observation and screening for bipolar depression change the diagnostic path.

Many symptoms that most impair patients with major depressive disorder go unspoken until treatment starts working, making early recognition and patient-defined goals central to effective care.