Causes‚ Effects‚ and Treatments of Depression One of the most common psychiatric disorders people encounter is depression. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) claims that 6.7 percent of the U.S. adult population‚ or 15 million people‚ were diagnosed with major depressive disorder within a year. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) conducted a study that concluded that nearly one out of every ten Americans have some form of depression (Lerner and Lerner). The same report from the
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work just as well as antidepressants when treating depression? How we perceive our depression is what helps to determine the type of treatment necessary. Antidepressants treat the common symptoms of depression rather than the condition while therapy helps change the thought process so the disease is cured in the end. Many studies are done to provide necessary information to what the answer to this question should be. The following articles provided studies that explained the effects of treatment with
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available option. This all changed upon the advent of the first-generation of antidepressants. Monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs) were the first medication to be approved in the treatment of psychiatric illnesses. They were followed shortly thereafter by the tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs) and later on in the 1970’s the closely related tetracyclic antidepressants (TeCAs). These early treatments were rife with side effects‚ the monoamine oxidase inhibitors were notorious for interacting with a wide
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type‚ most people go through it at least once in their lifetime‚ usually when they’re younger than twenty. Antidepressants are not good for children under the age of eighteen because their brains are not fully developed at that point in their lives. Antidepressants are full of chemicals and hormones that may not be healthy for those of a younger age‚there could be horrible long term effects‚ and it’s a possibility that this medication wouldn’t even work. It’s very dangerous and very risky. Though
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Antidepressants result in the death of over 40‚000 people each year (Mercola).Due to a fundamental misunderstanding of what depression is and how it should be treated‚ people who do not need them are often prescribed antidepressants by doctors. The result is dire. A ban against the use of antidepressants would prevent the deaths and health problems of hundreds of thousands of people (Mercola). However‚ there is a minority of people with chronic depression for whom the use of antidepressants prevents
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Placebos and Nocebos Image From http://www.nigms.nih.gov/Education/Pages/FactSheet_Drugs.aspx Report By‚ Amber Butterfield What this report is about This report is about placebos and nocebos and what they do to the human brain that can cause trouble in the medical field when it comes to testing new medicines before they go out into the real world to be used. The report will also be covering how electrosensitivity can be described as a placebo or nocebo depending on how it can be
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Antidepressants are overprescribed Mitrea (2007) defines antidepressants as an agent or a drug that is most commonly used to prevent or treat depression. However‚ in today’s society it could be said that antidepressants are being over prescribed and are being used to treat a vast range of other conditions‚ as well as clinical depression. When the first antidepressant was developed‚ manufacturers were reluctant to put it on the market due to the extremely low number of people suffering from depression
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When one thinks of the placebo effect‚ what comes to mind? Many might associate it with something negative. Some might believe it only involves being fooled or tricked‚ and immediately dismiss it. While there is still much that we do not know about how the placebo works‚ it is still important to view it open and objectively. I believe the positive effects from the placebo response‚ vastly outweigh the negative‚ and one even has the potential to harness the power of the placebo for their own personal
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from a relative or friend (UXL Encyclopedia of Drugs and Addictive Substances). When treating depression‚ there are many alternatives that could be put into use. Patients could use antidepressants to aid‚ or they can have therapies and other treatments. People from ages eight and above tend to rely on antidepressants
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suffering from depression (“Media Centre”). For some‚ depression takes over their lives and they end up taking their own before their life gets better or they get treatment. However‚ there are ways to help someone with depression. Taking and antidepressant or going to therapy are two options they could help someone suffering from this mental illness. At one point or another everyone has been bullied‚ struggled with school work‚ felt like they did not belong‚ or has been put under pressure.
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