Given the effectiveness of anti-depressants, I would advocate for medical treatment to anyone suffering from mood disorders. Anti-depressants can increase suicidal thoughts, but in such a small amount of 1 in 1000 and 1 in 3000 for suicide. If it increases suicidal thoughts, the medication can simply not be the best fit for you. There are a wide variety of anti-depressants that can be used to treat a patient, but people are not all the same. One medication might work for one patient and another can work for another patient. At one point where the FDA was warning about the risk of taking anti-depressants, the prescriptions for anti-depressants went down by 20% and the suicide rate for adolescents increased by 20%. Drugs may not seem like a safe way to treat depression, but the anti-depressants do work and in severe cases, you want to stop the patient’s suicidal thoughts as soon as possible.
Minor depressions would be the best time where cognitive-behavorial therapy would be a better starting point then drugs. In most cases, doctors who have patients with minor depression prescribe medications that are actually placebos and some people have …show more content…
Major depression is a long-term mood disorder and 70% of the patients that recover soon relapse. Patients who are in a stressful environment that contain many triggers should consider both treatments. Everyone is different and people respond to therapy differently. It may take one patient a week in therapy to feel less depressed and it may take another patient a couple of months to feel less depressed. Anti-depressants can start working within 2 weeks and if the patient doesn’t respond to the medication, there other medications that the doctor can prescribe. Anti-depressants are the best way to regulate and control suicidal thoughts and the sooner a patient with major depression responds to it, the less likely a tragic death will
Minor depressions would be the best time where cognitive-behavorial therapy would be a better starting point then drugs. In most cases, doctors who have patients with minor depression prescribe medications that are actually placebos and some people have …show more content…
Major depression is a long-term mood disorder and 70% of the patients that recover soon relapse. Patients who are in a stressful environment that contain many triggers should consider both treatments. Everyone is different and people respond to therapy differently. It may take one patient a week in therapy to feel less depressed and it may take another patient a couple of months to feel less depressed. Anti-depressants can start working within 2 weeks and if the patient doesn’t respond to the medication, there other medications that the doctor can prescribe. Anti-depressants are the best way to regulate and control suicidal thoughts and the sooner a patient with major depression responds to it, the less likely a tragic death will