Medicine: The Last Resort. Medicine should not be used often; rather, therapy should be used.

A patient visits a doctor complaining about marked changes in mood between extreme elation or happiness and severe depression. What should the doctor prescribe? Perhaps the doctor should dismiss the symptoms as stress and suggest that the patient goes on a vacation. Perhaps the doctor should recommend the patient to another department of the hospital. Perhaps the doctor should consider prescribing some strong medication to the patient to relieve his or her symptoms. Alternatively, perhaps, …

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