MGH Study - an introduction.

I'm currently enrolled in a depression study at Massachusetts General Hospital. The study evaluates whether SAMe, when given to a subject who is already taking an antidepressant (specifically, one that isn't working all that well), improves his or her condition.

I'm choosing to repost my Livejournal entries chronicling this search for an antidepressant that works because for a few reasons:

1. I don't believe that depression is something to be ashamed of. There is something chemically wrong with me. I would not be ashamed if I had a bad knee from a sports injury; I should not feel any different about a chronic mental condition.


2. Depression is a crippling condition, and one I would not wish upon my worst enemy. I feel obligated to do anything possible to make sure other people don't suffer without treatment for as long as I did.


3. I am working on The Artist's Way 12-week program (uhhh.. I'm expanding it to fit my needs), and I figure writing publicly on the Internet will make me more accustomed to criticism.


4. In a similar vein, I need to remember how to edit old work.

Okay, so, here we go. As of this writing I'm not quite three weeks into the study.