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Depression & anxiety

Treatment-resistant illness, new evidence, and lived experience.


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"Treatment-resistant" doesn't mean person-resistant
EssayDepression & anxiety

The clinical label describes what medicines have failed to do, not what a person is. That distinction changes how we read the research — and how we treat the people in it.

Higher Place editors · 19 April 2026 · 6 min read