What is Depression?
Depression is a common and serious medical illness that negatively affects how you feel, the way you think, and how you act. On the one hand, depression is connected with the emotional state of a person causing sadness, loss of interest, and problems in relations with other people. However, it can influence both the psychological and physical state of a person triggering serious problems with health and an inability to function in an appropriate way.
The
Symptoms of depression
- Loss of interest
- Depressed mood
- Troubles with sleeping
- Loss of energy
- Thoughts about suicide
- Changes in appetite
Depression can be diagnosed
after symptoms are sustained for two weeks. Only in this case, a doctor can
identify the problem and prescribe different kinds of treatment.
Treatment
of Depression
Referring to the primary stage
of identifying depression among other mental illnesses, the task of a doctor
lies in accurate physical evaluation, which means the general assessment
of the mental and physical health of a person. Alongside a physical evaluation,
an interview is another way to discover the problem and stands as an important
component for defining the kind of treatment.
Interviewing
helps to find the root of the symptoms traditionally connected with medical and
family history, cultural factors, environmental factors, and possible
psychological problems.
Depression
as commercial issue: The use of medications
It is true to say that
depression is not always an understandable mental illness, except for the
allowance of making profile from its treatment.
As
a result, there are no instructions about the treatment of depression that
provide a doctor with full control of the situation.
“Mental
illness is the drug industry’s golden goose: incurable, common, long term, and
involving multiple medications”.
Other statistics
- “Prescriptions for antidepressants are skyrocketing in
the US, making it the third most commonly prescribed class of drugs”.
- In many case, doctors do not delve into the problem,
choosing antidepressants as the easiest way to treat mental illness.
- As a result, there are a lot of cases of people being
over-diagnosed, misdiagnosed, or mistreated.
- What is more important, there are specific criteria
according to which a person can be diagnosed with depression.
- Unfortunately, antidepressants are often prescribed
for people who do not even reach the standards identified in the Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
Negative Effects of
Antidepressants
It is true to say that such strong drugs as
antidepressants can have a negative influence on the general state of a person
both psychologically and physically, which emphasizes the responsibility taken
by doctors in terms of their diagnoses and prescriptions.
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Conclusions
- Depression is a mental illness that influences a
person both psychologically and physically.
- Diagnosing a person with depression should be based on
an accurate physical evaluation and interview in order to examine both physical
and psychological sides of the problem
- Basically, there are two primary types of treatment:
psychotherapy as the interaction with a specialist in order to change patient’s
behavior, and taking antidepressants.
- The number of marks prescriptions grows every year,
which marks prescribing them a huge business on the global market.
- As a result, antidepressants can have negative effects
on people’s health (allergic reaction, seizures, Serotonin Syndrome,
Hyponatremia, mania, suicide thoughts).
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