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What medication strategies do you find most effective for treatment-resistant depression with a history of trauma?

For example, patients who had inadequate response to trials of SSRIs, SNRIs, and newer antidepressants.
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Psychiatry · Emory University School of Medicine
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If the depression is not responsive to first-line and newer antidepressants, a trial of mood stabilizers such as Lamictal or Lithium or atypical antipsychotics such as Abilify can be tried. If the anxiety is additionally severe, quetiapine can be tried.

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