When treatment hasn’t helped
A reading route through the reference, not a diagnostic checklist or a personalized treatment plan.
Start with the assessment
Read how the reference approaches depression, diagnosis, and diagnostic testing.
Look across treatment approaches
Place the psychotherapy and medication entries alongside each other, rather than treating either as the whole treatment landscape.
Follow the questions that remain
These symptom entries offer another way to navigate the material when a broad overview does not answer your question.
Read about further options
The interventions overview introduces the procedural-treatment entries. Reading about an option does not establish that it is appropriate for you.
Bring the questions, not just the conclusions
Save the entries you want to discuss and note what remains unclear. A clinician can put the information in the context of your history, current treatment, and goals. Do not change medication on the basis of a reading guide.