Key features of depression and its management in general practice.
 
 

"..I'm not like other people.."

 
Fatima agrees to come and see you for regular counseling. Over the next few weeks she confides that she has felt depressed since early childhood, and that she feels a "complete failure". She insists she has never derived any pleasure from anything that she has done in life. She says: "I've never really been normal. I'm not like other people".

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