Conditions: Major Depressive Disorder Dysthymia Depression Not Otherwise Specified Borderline Personality Disorder
Keywords: hopelessness alone sad troubled depression
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 80
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
The investigators hypothesize that patients receiving citalopram in combination with lithium will have a greater reduction in depressive symptoms than patients receiving citalopram in combination with placebo.

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: None arm 2: None

Interventions: intervention 1: Lithium Carbonate intervention 2: Placebo intervention 3: Citalopram
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: 300 mg one time per day for 4 weeks intervention 2: Take one time daily for 4 weeks intervention 3: All patients will be administered Citalopram 20 mg to to be taken once daily, by mouth for the duration of the double-blind treatment phase (4 weeks)

Protocol document: