INTRODUCTION
People with schizophrenia often experience depressive
symptoms during the course of their disorder.
Sands and Harrow, for example, in a 7.5-year longitudinal
study, found that 65% of schizophrenia
patients showed syndromal or subsyndromal
depressive symptoms at some point. Other research
has found that depressive symptoms in schizophrenia
are associated with more frequent and longer
hospitalizations, greater cognitive impairment,
a lower quality of life and, most dramatically,
suicide.