| Does depression treatment make sense? If you ever | | | | treatment does not allow the conclusion that the |
| suffered from depression as a patient or had to deal | | | | depression treatment in question will not work |
| with depression as someone close to a patient having | | | | perfectly well for other patients. Even if a given |
| this mental illness, you most certainly will have had | | | | patient experiences negative side effects of |
| doubts like this in your mind or will have had | | | | depression medication or her depression treatment |
| arguments about this question. It seems that many | | | | does not seem to alleviate her condition even after |
| depression sufferers, especially if they have been hit | | | | some time, there is no need to despair. In our day |
| by this illness recently, have serious doubts about the | | | | and age the range of depression treatment options is |
| effectiveness of depression medication. In many | | | | large and still increasing. The likelihood of getting the |
| cases they can recall stories from patients who did | | | | depression treatment one needs is very high indeed. |
| not have success in treating depression via one | | | | 2) OK, I will take my pills for a couple of weeks and |
| depression treatment method or another. There are | | | | then it will be gone forever! |
| two common misconceptions about depression | | | | Today we expect that anything, including our mind |
| treatment and modern medicine in general that may | | | | and body, can be fixed fast. There seems to be just |
| lead to such a reaction: | | | | no time to really get to the roots of a problem. Just |
| 1) If depression treatment xyz did not help this | | | | take a couple of pills, eat better and things will be |
| patient it cannot help me either! | | | | fine in an instant. If they won't, it must be because |
| Not every depression treatment is for everyone. In | | | | the treatment does not work. Well, depression |
| fact the more avanced our understanding of human | | | | treatment does not quite work like that. The fight |
| genetics and biomedicine in general and of depression | | | | with depression is a long though often successful one. |
| medication in particular gets the more it is obvious | | | | Depression medication usually takes a couple of |
| that each and every patient is different, though | | | | weeks before its positive effect kicks in fully - So |
| fortunately there are many common traits among | | | | does the effect of other depression treatments or |
| large patient cohorts (Over time medical | | | | treatment supports, be it electrotherapy, herbs, or a |
| advancements will lead to a more personalized | | | | change in lifestyle. Even worse, at the beginning of |
| depression medication approach, but we are not quite | | | | depression treatment things may seem to be getting |
| there yet). Each depression treatment has potential | | | | worse before they get better. This is a natural and |
| side effects and shows a large range of | | | | well-known effect of depression treatment that has |
| effectiveness over a given patient population. Both | | | | nonetheless led to many patients quitting treatment |
| effects are on the one hand dependent on the | | | | feeling that depression treatment does not help them |
| depression medication dose applied, on the other | | | | at all. Patient beware that you will have to wait to |
| hand they are a function of the patients' different | | | | see the effects of your depression treatment and |
| biochemical and genetic traits. That some patients | | | | should in no case stop taking depression medication |
| experience side effects with depression medication, | | | | or stop pursuing other activities to treat depression |
| or do not get healed by a particular depression | | | | because you cannot see a positive short term effect. |