Depresyonun tedaviye cevap vermemesinde ve kronik depresyonda önemli faktörlerden biri Medikal Komorbiditedir. Bu durum ile ilgili medikal durumlardan biri metabolit metabolizmasıdır.
Biz resistan depresyon gösteren ve Hipomagnezemi tesbit ettiğimiz ve suplemantasyonu ile düzelen İki olguyu sunuyoruz.

Medical co-morbidity is considered to be one of the reasons of chronicity or treatment resistance in depression. Solving the other problem may result In improvement of depression. Metabolic disorders constitute an example for this phenomenon. Disturbances of the electrolyte metabolism, especially magnesium deficiency are reported to have caused a wide range of psychiatric disorders, from dysphoria to psychosis. We found out that two of our patients with a diagnosis of depression resistant to treatment had hypomagnesemla after routine laboratory tests. Following a course of magnesium replacement therapy, we observed that the depressive states of the patients improved markedly. In this paper we present these two cases.