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- 1. Nowadays doctors are talking a lot about depression and its treatment and there are several methods that are really efficient in the fight against depression. And it is the possibility to save the world from the depressed state.
- 2. The consequences of depression may be really awful and may cause further problems in life and with surrounding. The problem is that these consequences may be even the death and suicide. It is especially dangerous for teenagers. According to statistics about 35% of teens do consider suicide.
- 3. Rarely the development of depression in old age is connected with some diseases such as endocrine disease or the certain medicine taking. The manifestation of depression in old age has its specialities in every certain case and the exact diagnosis may be set only by a doctor.
- 4. The main element in depression treatment is taking care of yourself. In fact this is essential part of depression treatment and even the preventive measure of this disease.
Psychotherapy as method of treatment
Psychotherapy is treatment with the help of word. This is an effective way of treatment of reactive depression that will help you when you simply describe everything you feel.
But the efficiency of its method of treatment of depression differs from the depression of different origins. During reactive depression psychotherapy will be efficient enough because its main essence is the fight against the first origins of depression. During endogenous depression psychotherapy may be additional way of treatment to the antidepressants taking. Combined treatment may be especially efficient in treatment of some types of depression.
Usually psychotherapy doesn't last for a long time and makes from ten to twenty sessions. There are several kinds of psychotherapy used during the treatment of depression and they are: when this method is used to find out the origins of disease, interpersonal method is used to concentrate on the fact that depression is connected with the emotional relation of a patient with other people. Psychodynamic method is one of the types of psychoanalytic psychotherapy and searches for the reasons for depression in early got traumas and conflicts. The choice of a doctor and method of psychotherapy are very individual. During every moment of human life he/she may need different methods and different doctors for the treatment of the same type of depression. It is necessary to remember if psychotherapy doesn't help and the state even gets worse, it may be endogenous depression.