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provider. And now, on to the show. Welcome to Helix Talk episode 24. I'm your co-host, Dr.

Kane. I'm Dr. Schumann. And I'm Dr. Patel. And today we're doing a little bit

different of an episode. We're going to go through three different patient case vignettes and talk

about kind of our preferred management or preferred therapies for some of these patients. So the

first patient that we're going to dive into is a patient who's depressed. So this patient is a 31-year-old

male who has hypertension

currently on hydrochlorothiozide for their hypertension 25 milligrams once a day. And they're

presenting with signs and symptoms consistent with depression, and the patient is seeking medication

therapy in addition to counseling that they're already receiving for their depression.

The one caveat to this patient case, though, is that they're very worried about sexual dysfunction.

This 31-year-old male is married, wanting to have children in the next year or two.

He's really worried about kind of losing the mojo in the bedroom because of any antidepressant

that he may initiate, but at the same time is really

ready to kind of get over the depressive symptoms that he's been having.

Right, and this is something that comes up fairly frequently when we're looking at that,

and we look at some of the agents, and we can kind of look, we sometimes think of it as a class-based

issue.

So the one thing that comes up a lot of times is that from individuals

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