What is depression?
Depression refers to feel sadness happening after sufferer had lost his beloved person or experienced sadness event.
It episode always happens as long as six to nine months, but about 15 – 20% patients can experience until two years or more. It has a tendency to relapse every time.
Commonly, assessments of depression diagnosis are based on signs and symptoms. Depression or family with depression history may help diagnosis to be clearer.
Sometimes, standard question such as: Hamilton depression scale score and Beck questioner depression can support depression assessment.
Blood checking, especially done to women because of hormonal factor relationship, can help physician to decide the cause of depression.
Actually, depression doesn’t need hospital care, but patient who must be taken care to the hospital are:
- Having suicidal tendency or its plan.
- Having weakness body condition because of weight loss effect.
- Having risk factor of heart disorder because of the anxiety.
Recently, drugs gift is the main way in the depression treatment. The other treatments are psychotherapy and Electro Convulsive Therapy. Sometimes, therapies used to cure for depression are the combination of it.
#1 Anti depressant drugs
Many drugs available are used for many weeks before they have drugs action or reaction. It consists of:
A. TCA (Tri Cyclic Anti depressant)
B. Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor (SSRI)
C. Monoamine Oxidize Inhibitors (MAOIs)
D. Psycho stimulant
#2 Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy used together with anti depressant gift can result better recovery. Individual or group of psychotherapy can help patient, step by step, to back on his activity and adapt normal life.
#3 Electro Convulsive Therapy
Electro Convulsive Therapy (ECT) is used to overcome hard depression, especially to :
- patient of psychotics.
- patient who has suicidal tendency.
- patient who losses appetite.
That therapy is very effective to reduce depression as soon as possible. (more)
