There is a stereotype that taking of antidepressants – is a manifestation of weak character. At the same time, people who suffer from other diseases like high blood-pressure or polyarthritis, take medications during exacerbation, and it is considered quite normal.
For example, aspirin is not able to treat polyarthritis, but it can kill the pain in joints and thereby to relieve patient’s suffering. Unfortunately, there is a stereotype in our society, that depression – is a weak will, slackness, and only some of them understand that depression is the same disease which need treatment. Of course antidepressants can not always relieve from depression, but they can abate the pain. Not physical but mental.
For many people the question of adaptation is quite important. Will not organism insist on usual dose even after depression recovery? We can answer more than uniquely – medications, which are taking today from depression, do not addict an adaptation independence from duration treatment. They only help the body to restore those mechanisms which were disturbed by depression.
People, whose work is creative, are usually interested, if medications will not disturb processes answering for creative abilities. In most cases depression has not a very good influence upon creative work, more often it makes it impossible. Antidepressants are able to renew unbalanced inner life and return to the person creation ability, because mental health more often promotes creative activity.
Psychiatrist’s task – is to choose the right medications. Only half of patients feel improvement after the first course of therapy. So the choice of drugs can be called by trial and error. A doctor can prescribe several medications before he find out the most efficacious.
The preparation’s effect doesn’t show immediately – usually it takes no less than 2-3 weeks between beginning of the drug and appearance of positive effect. Sometimes positive changes can appear already in a week. For some people medications are like panacea, and person who for several months unsuccessfully was trying to get out of depression, come to life just in presence. But there are people who do not feel any affect of drug therapy. Do not hurry to identify yourself to this category – everything is very individual, and in some cases a stable result may appear only in several months.
Often drugs are prescribed with others treatment modes. Antidepressants most often are not able to fill inner life with a light and completely relieve from depressed feelings. They can give the feeling of stability and weaken depression symptoms.
In practice I have had some people who suffer from depression already not a year, and often in the acute form, but they have never taken the course of treatment with antidepressants.
A lot of them have a stereotype, like «still I hold out without drugs, I am quite normal person, but once only to start… ». And what next, I wonder? Look, what is happening right now with your lives. I repeat, medications are nonaddictive, and at any moment you may give up therapy even if you have taken them for several years, without detriment to your health.
Frequently, just depression does not allow use some methods from this section, because in order to try something, you need strength and stability. Depression takes away all this things. Medications are able to give necessary conditions, to change your perception, to relieve depression, and only then you can run, go to the psychotherapist, practice sleep’s derivation and do a lot of other things.
I myself for many years took antidepressants, and they played an important role in the treatment of my depression, and after a year when I was able to deal with depression and its symptoms have become much weaker, I just stopped taking them. You see? It is quite easy.
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