Depression A check-list of symptoms is not a diagnosis. There are two primary modes of treatment, typically used in conjunction: medication and psychotherapy. Many people identify the feeling of being depressed as "being blue", "feeling sad for no reason", or "having no motivation to do anything". The causal relationship with biological variables is unknown and so it is difficult to pinpoint the condition's roots. Cognitive behaviour therapy has been demonstrated in carefully controlled studies to be among the foremost of the recent wave of methods which achieve more rapid and lasting results than traditional "talk therapy" analysis. Depression. Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are a family of antidepressant considered to be the current standard of drug treatment. A third treatment, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), may be used when chemical treatment fails. This is generally seen as quite distinct from the diagnosis of clinical depression. Depression can be the result of many factors, individually and acting in concert. Serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs) such as venlafaxine (Effexor) and duloxetine (Cymbalta) are a newer form of antidepressant that works on both noradrenaline and serotonin. It can be argued that depression and clinical depression is in fact the refusal of a person to heed the call to change from within his own mind. Other somatic expressions can be a sense of "dispirited", or "lagging" or being weighed down, and a heaviness in breathing, expressed as broken or despondent sighs. The causal relationship with biological variables is unknown and so it is difficult to pinpoint the condition's roots. Depression. Postpartum depression
The term is generally not used in countries which instead use the ICD-10 system, but the diagnosis of depressive episode is very similar to an episode of major depression. Depression may also be orbid with cardiovascular disorders. |
