What is the MOST effective treatment for depression?
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We are not talking about a day or two of feeling "low" or "blue" here. Please understand that severe clinical depression is a serious illness.
Medication loses it's effectiveness over time as the body gets used to it. Usually the course of drugs will be for around 6 months or a year. Has your doctor seen you during your two years or does he just give you a repeat prescription? You need to see him and explain that the tablets are not as effective as they were and ask for a different drug.
It is easy to suggest "going for a walk", "snapping out of it" etc etc but if a person has severe depression just getting out of bed in the morning is a major achievement. Life is no longer worth lliving and there is no joy in the world. You are too depressed even to contemplate suicide - which is why suicide is more common in people recovering from depression - they then have the energy to take action but remember the utter dispair they have experienced.
Sometimes the reason for depression is a chemical imbalance in the brain. Post natal depression is a well known example of this. Depression is an illness just as a tumour or a broken leg is an illness.
However a broken leg can be seen and so sympathy is forthcoming. Depression is hidden and unless you have suffered (either as a depresive of as a family member or friend of a depressive) you are unlikely to understand what is going on. Tumours are also hidden and I was once told to ignore my tumour and it would just go away! You wouldn't suggest that someone with a broken leg should go for a run so why suggest that someone with SEVERE depression just needs life style changes? The life style changes often do work for mild depression but for severe clinical depression extra help is needed. The drugs help to re-balance the chemicals in the brain just as tamoxifen helps balance the chemical makeup of the body following some malignant tumours.
Depression is a life long illness. You learn coping techniques but it is always there ready to jump out at you either in times of stress (and who doesn't have stress in their life?) or even when there seems to be no reason for it.
I wish you all the best in your recovery. Recovery is possible as is a full and rewarding life.
Remember only clever people get depression.
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The drugs don't work. Take a bath, eat an icecream, hug someone. Get a girlfriend.
GET LAID it works a lot better than being on some pills your body may have gotten used to the medication so it's not working as well as it did before - talk to your doctor and see if they can get you on something else. and yes, ice cream always helps!
maybe you should go out and join some organization that will grab your attention and make you happy, example.
Goin any varcityn team in your school, or join any oragnization in your university, as singer, dancer, drama actor/actrees.
or maybe you have taht problem you are trying to escaped??
well i will tell you that it would not help, better to face it and try to solved it or accept it.
then move on to your life,,,, life is great and always fair. i told you. promis.
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