Friday, May 9, 2008

Does Depression Treatment Make Sense?

Treating depression does it make sense? If you ever suffered from depression as a patient or had to deal with depression as someone close to a patient of this mental illness, you undoubtedly will have had doubts like this in his mind or have had arguments on this issue.

It seems that many suffer from depression, especially if they have been affected by this disease recently, have serious doubts about the effectiveness of the medication for depression. In many cases, can recall stories of patients who were not successful in the treatment of depression through a method of treating depression or another. There are two misconceptions about depression treatment and modern medicine in general that can lead to this reaction: 1) If depression treatment xyz not help this patient can not help me either! Not all treatment of depression is for everyone.

In fact, the most advances our understanding of human genetics and biomedicine in general and medication for depression in particular, receives the most obvious is that every patient is different, but fortunately there are many commonalities between large cohort of Patients (Over time, medical advances will lead to a more personalized depression medication, but not quite there yet). Each treatment of depression has potential side effects and displays a wide range of effectiveness for a certain group of patients. Both effects are, firstly, it depends on the dose of depression medication is applied, moreover, are a function of patients different biochemical and genetic markers.

That some patients experience side effects with depression medication, or not healed from a depression treatment does not allow the conclusion that the treatment of depression in question will not work perfectly well for other patients. Even if a patient is experiencing negative side effects of depression or medication for treatment of depression does not seem to alleviate their condition, even after some time, there is no need to despair. In our age range of options for treating depression is large and growing. The probability of getting the treatment of depression is needed is very high indeed. 2) OK, I will take my pills for a couple of weeks and then will ido forever! Today we expect anything, including our mind and body, can be fixed quickly. There seems to be not only time to really get to the roots of a problem. Just take a couple of pills, eat better and things are fine in an instant. If not, it must be because the treatment does not work. Well, depression treatment does not work well. The struggle with depression is a long but often with success.

The depression medication usually takes a couple of weeks before its positive effect kicks in full - So does the effect of other treatments for depression or supports treatment, whether electrotherapy, herbs, or a change in style life. Worse still, at first the treatment of depression things may seem to worsen before improving. This is a natural and well-known effect of treatment of depression, however, has led many patients to quit treatment feeling that depression treatment does not help at all. Be careful patient who is going to have to wait to see the effects of its treatment of depression and in any case stop taking the medication or depression stop other activities to treat depression because you can not see a positive effect short term. The probability of treatment for depression in general does not work in a particular case is actually very thin.

However, for the reasons stated above, certain treatments for depression may not work yet, not at all or only with many side effects for a particular patient. If a patient is in the hands of a good medical professional who can be sure that the right treatment for depression particular case will be identified - A treatment of depression that relieve pain and eventually allow the patient depressed to regain his life.

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