To cure depression, you first need to know what starts it.
It can be a chemical imbalance, stress in your life, or just you not listening to yourself and making choices that set you up to fail.
If there is stress in your life, remove it as best you can. Take a break. Take a weekend and just have a mini-vacation. Make time for yourself. If its something in the future plan out a flexible course of action. Learn to recognize things you can change and things you're going to have to accept that you can't change.
When making decisions, try to pick the choice that will make you happiest in the long run, as opposed to the choice that makes you happy for right now. Give yourself goals to look forward to, and strive to acheive them. This goals should be realistic goals that YOU want, not what you think would make others happy. You need to put yourself first and strive for your own happiness, or no one else will.
The other thing to consider with re-occurant depression is a chemical imbalance. Chemical imbalances can be more complicated than just simply taking an antidepressant. If a chemical imbalance is suspected, you should get tested also for Celiac, food allergies, thyroid, diabetes as often this is one of the side effects of these conditions. Pay attention to if it happens most at certain times of the day or after eating certain meals. Just taking a simple pill is easy, but if you have an underlying disease causing the depression, you'll find that the pills are only a temporary fix at best. Most times you'll find that taking antidepressants for a depression caused by another disease only complicates matters or makes them worse.
2006-12-07 20:40:29
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answered by V 4
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Depressive disorders are characterized by sadness severe enough or persistent enough to interfere with function and sometimes by decreased interest or pleasure in activities. Exact cause is unknown but probably involves heredity, changes in neurotransmitter levels, altered neuroendocrine function, and psychosocial factors. Diagnosis is based on history. Treatment usually consists of drugs, psychotherapy, or both, and sometimes electroconvulsive therapy.
Some people with clinical depression may attempt to dull their feelings of despair by consuming alcohol, tobacco, or illicit drugs. Some people with depression may resort to alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, opiates or amphetamines for their mood-altering effects. These attempts at self-medication may lead to a pattern of alcoholism and drug abuse that further exacerbates the depression.
Depression affects in all ages- teenagers, adolescents and elderly in acute or chronic form.
Keep always engaged in socially useful work. Consult a Psychiatrist.
Please see the web pages for more details on Depression.
2006-12-07 21:36:44
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answered by gangadharan nair 7
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