Pros and cons of Major depression.

The depression can be treated in a variety of ways, particularly with medications and the advising. Most of people it benefits from a combination of both. Some studies have demonstrated that the drug therapy of the antidepressant combined with sicoterapia appears to have results better than any therapy only.

The medications include tricyclic antidepressants, the inhibitors of oxidized of monoamine, the selective inhibitors of re-re-uptake of serotonin (SSRIs), and some newer drugs of the antidepressant. Whereas the medications of the antidepressant can be very effective, some can not be appropriate for each one. For example, in September, 2004 that the FDA began to consider a warning that some antidepressants can increase the risk of suicidal tendencies in children.

The supplements of lithium and the thyroid can be necessary to heighten the antidepressant effectiveness. For the people with sicopáticos symptoms, such as delusions or hallucinations, the antipsicóticas medications can be necessary.

The therapy of Electroconvulsive (ECT) is a treatment that causes a grasping by means of an electrical current. ECT can improve the humor of seriously pressed people or forces suicide on that it does not respond to other treatments.

The investigation now is being conducted on the transcranial magnetic stimulus (TMS), that alters the brain that works of a way similar to ECT, but with few indirect effect. The use of the slight therapy for the depressive symptoms in the months and interventions of the winter to recover a normal cycle of the dream can be effective in releasing the depression.

Because the treatment takes effect, the negative thought diminishes. Taking time to feel better, but are daily improvements generally. It is important to maintain a form of healthy life. Eat the well-balanced meals, you avoid the alcohol and the drugs (that make the depression worse and can interfere with medications), it obtains to the regular exercise and the dream, and looks for the interpersonal relations of support.

Many consumers try herbarios products for the depression. The must of St. Juan has a long history of the use in Germany and has gained reputation like herbario antidepressant in the United States. Most of the studies German they indicated that the must of St. Juan was comparable to some antidepressants. Nevertheless, a great study lead by the national center for the complementary and alternative medicine found that the must of St. Juan was not effective for the important depression that it treated.

Because the herbarios products can have indirect effect, it always says to his doctor if you are using them.

For more information and resources, it sees the group of aid of the depression.

The result is generally good with the treatment. Although most of the depressive episodes they are possible to be dealt with effectiveness with the medication, the sicoterapia, or both, the depression is a problem that is repeated for much people. For the people who have experienced repeated episodes of the depression, the treatment of the maintenance can be necessary to prevent the future repetitions.

• Suicide (up to 15% of people with important depressive disorder it dies by suicide)
• Increasing risk of the drug-related problems of the alcohol and
• Increasing risk of the dependency of the tobacco
• Increasing risk of problems with physical health and the premature death due to the medical disease

Call 911, a direct telephone of the suicide, or obtains to a next quarter of emergency surely if you have thoughts of the suicide, a suicidal plan, or thoughts to be damaged or others.

Call immediately to his doctor if:

• You hear the voices that are not there.
• You have griterío you frequent spells little with or anything of provocation.
• You have had sensations of the depression that interrupt the work, the school, or the life of family by more of length of 2 weeks.
• You think that one of its pressed present medications can do the sensation to him. He does not change nor he stops any medications without consulting his doctor.
• You think that you must cut behind in drinking, a member or a friend of the family has requested who you cut behind, you feels like culprit on the amount of alcohol that you drink, or you in the morning drink the first thing of the alcohol.