Double depression: its morbidity and management in a community setting

@article{Goldney2006DoubleDI,
  title={Double depression: its morbidity and management in a community setting},
  author={Robert D. Goldney and Marcus A. Bain},
  journal={Acta Neuropsychiatrica},
  year={2006},
  volume={18},
  pages={210 - 215},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:2561657}
}
While double depression is associated with increased morbidity and use of health services, the optimum use of both pharmacological and nonpharmacological treatments is clearly lacking in this community sample.
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