Medication
depressive symptoms
The first-stage medication treatment involved sublingual zolpidem, 5 mg to 10 mg, taken nightly at bedtime. The second-stage pharmacotherapy consisted of trazodone, 50 to 150 mg, taken 30 minutes before bedtime. As a serotonin receptor antagonist and reuptake inhibitor antidepressant, trazodone can alleviate a wide range of depressive symptoms with an additional sedative effect of sleep,