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Take existing homes.

While local sales have increased year-over-year for the last 13 years, the inventory of existing homes for sale has skyrocketed.

In fact, existing home inventory in January totaled 12,015, a 262 percent increase in the last year, according to ORRA's January Roth Report.

"The last time we saw inventory levels this high was in the mid-1990s," notes Scott Hillman, president of Winter Park-based Fannie Hillman + Associates.

New homes have not been immune to these market mood swings either, says Anthony Crocco, Houston-based Metrostudy's director of the Orlando/Jacksonville region.

While reporting increases in both the annual housing start and closing rates last year - 3.6 percent and 9.3 percent respectively - Metrostudy also noted a marked 18.3 percent increase in the inventory of new single-family homes to 16,067.

The largest spike was recorded in the finished vacant new homes category, where the number of available units rose more than 97 percent from 1,709 in 2004 to 3,372 last year.

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He's been hospitalized, repeatedly; he's had breakdowns and episodes and scares; at his worst, he's come very close to being responsible for people's deaths.

He relies on the care of his family for everyday living- never mind making a career in the arts.

His work is valuable, but it's less like a business and more like a natural resource: He makes it, and probably always will, and a whole lot of action goes into figuring out what happens after that.

Which means that Daniel's surrounded by the same machinery as any star- only on a weird miniature scale, and with all the actors curiously replaced.

Instead of slick managers and unctuous handlers, Daniel has his family: mostly his father, Bill, and his older brother, Dick.

Instead of shady groupies and coattail riders, Daniel has art dealers, some of whom the Johnstons claim have taken personal advantage of both Daniel and his work.

On some level, the routine down here in the Marriott lobby feels like some sketched-in version of meeting a pop star- right down to the part where the entourage is finished gathering and Dick runs upstairs to fetch Daniel from his room.

Strange, too, when the man of the hour steps off the elevator looking the way we now know him: paunchy, older than his years, faintly cherubic.

He's wearing the usual drawstring sweatpants and track jacket; his gray hair is mussed and his eyebrows shoot everywhere.

His medication gives him noticeable tremors in both arms, something you'd never gues...

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After suicide attempts and dismal reactions to the medication, and a descent into substance abuse that finally led her to the Betty Ford Center, she has found a psychiatrist she trusts — one who has tweaked her Effexor with a low dose of Wellbutrin.

After all, repeated research has shown that the most effective treatment for depression is medications along with psychotherapy.

With that approach, she is losing weight and has managed to get, and hold down, a job.

"Of course, if I knew then what I know now, so much pain could have been avoided," says Lindsey, who, like the other antidepressant users quoted in this story, did not want her last name used.

"I was feeling really hopeless in trying out all these different drugs and not having them work." As many patients learn, the key to effective treatment for depression — as with most illnesses — is giving the medications time to work and knowing when they aren't.

"What we should be doing is starting from the get-go and telling patients and families, you may not respond to this treatment alone," says University of Pittsburgh's Kupfer.

"We think we are allowed to use one drug, one bullet.

If we were treating cardiovascular disease or asthma, we would be talking about a treatment strategy over a lifetime." The newer, more measured view of antidepressants should not have been entirely unexpected, points out Fred Goodwin, the former head of th...