The article I read was about a doctor who was on trial for a malpractice suit, because of a patient of his that had committed suicide. What happened was a middle aged man was newly diagnosed with depression and over a series of a couple years experimented with different antidepressants and finally wrote his wife a letter telling her goodbye. The reason this is such an interesting case is because it was believed that the man had other mental disorders wrong with him and the doctor said that he diagnosed him according to the DSM-IV. The doctor argued that he did everything by the book and that if anything is wrong, then the DSM must be flawed.
The reason I chose this study is because I have had postpartum depression twice now and find it interesting that the doctor could not pick up on what was normal for this man and what was not. In fact he even had a time for about two weeks where he clearly acted beyond his normal behavior, and the doctor diagnosed this as being narcoleptic to the antidepressant and left it at that. I am no doctor, but I personally think that there should have been more tests done instead of just guessing and hoping.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/mood-swings/200912/death-dsm
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