Yoga as Treatment for Depression “Globally, more than 350 million people suffer from depression, approximately 4.7% of the world population. Depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide (Manincor).” The majority of people diagnosed with depression turn to western medicines and treatment to treat their depression. These medications and treatments can cost a person thousands of dollars and many western medicines have negative effects. What if, there was a better way to treat depression without a detrimental cost or nasty side effects? Western Medicine is an effective way to treat depression but, yoga may be more effective due to its ability to regulate hormones, reduce feelings of depression and has no adverse effects on patients.
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These symptoms include weight loss or gain, insomnia or hypersomnia, loss of energy and focus. Western society has come up with routine treatments that are supposed to help with depression those treatments include therapy and medicine (Greenburg). They use therapy to try and understand how the depression started or what’s causing it. The belief that talking about your feeling will make you feel better. The use and techniques of therapy haven 't changed much over the years. The reliance of medicine and what type of medicine we use has. To treat depression some see it as a chemical imbalance in the brain. This imbalance can be cured with the right type of drug. This “right” drug has changed over the years. Depression medicine started out with MAOI”S and TCA’s. MAOI’s used isocarboxazid and phenelzine to improve mood. TCA’s used amitriptyline and paroxetine to improve mood. However, both of these types of drugs included large side effect profiles. Today we use serotonin norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SSRI’s). SSRI’s have lower side effect profiles but increase the chance of suicide (Greenburg). How is it that a drug that is supposed to help with depression increases the risk of suicide? This is why many American have turned to alternative methods to treat the depression. A popular alternative method to treat depression is …show more content…
What’s their mental state and do they prefer yoga over tradition treatments for depression? “[In a] systematic review of 12 studies on yoga for depression found evidence for short-term improvement in the severity of depression and anxiety was found (Cramer).” In another study “for depression, 15 patients in a trial (37.5%) in the yoga group with elevated depression scores returned back to normal range (Manincor).” Patients had lower stress and positive improvements to their mental health (Manincor). This evidence points to yoga as a significantly better way to treat depression than with western medicine and yoga as no negative
These symptoms include weight loss or gain, insomnia or hypersomnia, loss of energy and focus. Western society has come up with routine treatments that are supposed to help with depression those treatments include therapy and medicine (Greenburg). They use therapy to try and understand how the depression started or what’s causing it. The belief that talking about your feeling will make you feel better. The use and techniques of therapy haven 't changed much over the years. The reliance of medicine and what type of medicine we use has. To treat depression some see it as a chemical imbalance in the brain. This imbalance can be cured with the right type of drug. This “right” drug has changed over the years. Depression medicine started out with MAOI”S and TCA’s. MAOI’s used isocarboxazid and phenelzine to improve mood. TCA’s used amitriptyline and paroxetine to improve mood. However, both of these types of drugs included large side effect profiles. Today we use serotonin norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SSRI’s). SSRI’s have lower side effect profiles but increase the chance of suicide (Greenburg). How is it that a drug that is supposed to help with depression increases the risk of suicide? This is why many American have turned to alternative methods to treat the depression. A popular alternative method to treat depression is …show more content…
What’s their mental state and do they prefer yoga over tradition treatments for depression? “[In a] systematic review of 12 studies on yoga for depression found evidence for short-term improvement in the severity of depression and anxiety was found (Cramer).” In another study “for depression, 15 patients in a trial (37.5%) in the yoga group with elevated depression scores returned back to normal range (Manincor).” Patients had lower stress and positive improvements to their mental health (Manincor). This evidence points to yoga as a significantly better way to treat depression than with western medicine and yoga as no negative