Reading the Ability of a Patient to Change His or Her Life

This patient was presented to me by a resident as a person complaining chiefly of exhaustion, or lack of motivation, for the past summer. She continued her jobs for a temporary agency, but she did little else. She seemed to be depressed, but she lacked any of the complications we look for. She had no vegetative signs, no suicidal ideation, no psychotic or manic phases, and no alcohol or drug use.