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Article: Stanford drug study offers hope for chronic depression sufferers. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- February 28, 1994
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SAN JOSE, Calif. _ For John, a 40-year-old South Peninsula man, it was a feeling that life was not worth living. At least four times a week, he would think of killing himself. For three years, the depression did not lift.
Susan, 38, found herself crying ``all the time.'' Getting up in the morning took a supreme effort, and once she dragged herself out of bed, she couldn't shake the deep feeling of dread that plunged her into the depths of depression. The feelings didn't diminish, month after month after month.
Chronic depression _ the sense of doom and listlessness that saps its victims of the energy to get up in the morning and the ability to find joy in life _ is ...