Nowdays everybody has depression and it seems that everybody seeks their doctor for some pills. Are pills the only cure for depression? What other options could the doctor give to his patients?
2007-02-15 06:09:12 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Other - Diseases
Antidepressants allow the patient the time to regroup and see someone professionally, in cases where its a brain chemistry matter, that's the way you give your brain what it needs.
They used to use the 'talking cure' but it really didn't help.
I've always though one of the reasons we have so much depression these days is that we expect so much of ourselves and our lives rarely live up to what we see on TV and it makes us feel we aren't good enough, or we would have what they have.
I also think we need more good friends to talk things over with, we seem to have lost that in the last 30 or so years.
2007-02-15 06:17:30 · answer #1 · answered by justa 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, yes and yes!
Take it from one who has just weened off of and anti-depressant. Whatever was wrong before you took it (in most cases) if far better than the withdrawal symptoms you have when coming off of them.
I was in a terrible car accident, I had a total thyroidectomy due to cancer (found out because of the accident), my father died and things began to happen. I was first put on Paxil to elevate my mood. Gained twenty pounds. Not good especially since the thyroid was gone also! My oncologist put me on Effexor.
I never wanted to be on anti-depressants the rest of my life. Who would?
The withdrawal symptoms from these king of drugs are far worse than anything I ever went through in the first place. If I was more educated now and had known then what it would be like I would have never taken them and would have found self-help methods instead of listening to doctor's that think writing a prescription is a lot easier.
Plus, they do get kick-backs from all the drug companies.
Doctor's need to educate themselves more to the needs of a person and not be so fast to whip out the prescription pad and be done with it.
We are the guinea pigs in all of this and one day in the future we, or our children will find out what these medicines did to our system.
2007-02-15 14:20:01 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
Patients should be seeing Psychiatrists instead of regular doctors. There are other methods to fight depression such as therapy.
Patients who ask their regular family doctors for pills are asking for the hard way out of depression. Those pills don't work for everyone and some are allergic or sensitive to those kinds of medications.
2007-02-15 14:13:26 · answer #3 · answered by Nancy 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Doctors get huge kickbacks from the drug makers- they won't stop peddling drugs. They get trips to Hawaii (called "educational conferences"), expensive dinners, cases of expensive booze, gifts galore- drug makers spend multi-millions paying doctors to be their drug-mongers. It's not your health they care about, it's a $550 billion (half a trillion) dollar business.
2007-02-15 14:14:12 · answer #4 · answered by Violet Pearl 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
phyciatrists should be the only ones not some family doc who checks for sore throats
2007-02-15 14:17:37 · answer #5 · answered by mason h 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope..
If they are depressed , give them antidepressants..
If they are in pain, give them pain killers...
2007-02-15 14:16:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
NO
2007-02-15 14:13:00 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋