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Title: Effective way of Depression Treatments


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  • Overview to Depression
  • It is a common mental illness.
  • Caused due to imbalance of chemical composition
    of brain.
  • People loss interest from everyday activities
    like eating, sleeping etc.
  • Very common in people living in cities.

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Symptoms of Depression
  • Sadness
  • Hopelessness
  • Feeling Emptiness
  • Loss of Self Esteem
  • Feeling of Self blame or Guilty
  • Loss of Interest
  • Having Thoughts of Death or Suicide
  • Poor Memory

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  • Forms of Depression
  • Major Depression At least 5 symptoms of
    depression are present in the depressed person.
    The person is not able to enjoy life. Sometimes
    want to die or suicide.
  • Minor Depression The symptoms are less. If
    depressed person is not treated then it can
    become major depression.
  • Bipolar Disorder mood of the person changes
    cyclically with severe highs(mania) and severe
    lows.
  • Dysthymia the symptoms are of low grade but are
    chronic which can lasts for minimum of 2 years.

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Effective Way of Depression Treatments
  • Medication
  • Antidepressants should be used in order to
    return a person into normal functioning.
  • Medicines are very much useful and effective on
    order to regain a depressed person into normal
    condition.

Apart from medication, psychotherapy is also an
effective.
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Effective Way of Depression Treatments
  • psychotherapy
  • This should be done by specialists known as
    psychiatrists.
  • It is even more effective than medicines.
  • In the current time people prefer these
    treatments as it does not done by medicines.

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