2007-08-23 06:17:00 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
I think it only masks it.... i don't think it cures it.....
2007-08-23 06:20:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Clinical depression is caused by both a neurochemical imbalance and situational stressors. Antidepressant drugs are now often prescribed to persons with clinical depression to help correct the neurochemical imbalance.("clinical depression" here refers to people who have certain specific and long-term and debilitating symptoms such as apathy, sadness, and suicidal thoughts among other sensations--not people who get a little blue now and then) Persons treated for depression also sometimes receive some form of psychological counseling to help them modify behavior, cope, and resolve the situational cause of depression. The same holds true of persons who have anxiety disorders.
Therefore, in answer to your question, medication does not mask depression. It is a resource to help cure it.
2007-08-23 13:34:40 · answer #2 · answered by philosophyangel 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mask. I have depression and if I miss a pill I am back where I started...it doesn't cure it.
2007-08-23 13:21:00 · answer #3 · answered by aerofrce1 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No it doesn't cure it. I was medicated for depression once and it didn't help me at all.
2007-08-23 13:24:09 · answer #4 · answered by Nico 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It helps to a point. For some people, all they need is that extra seratonin in their bodies. For a lot of us, it's a mental thing, meaning that we have unresolved issues that need to be taken care of to help lessen the depression.
some people are more prone to it than others.
2007-08-23 13:22:06 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
have you ever read the notice in the box that tells you the side effects taking the tablets might give you .why do they seem to be all the things you are suffering with.
2007-08-23 13:27:02 · answer #6 · answered by HaSiCiT Bust A Tie A1 TieBusters 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think it cures it OR masks it.
I think it treats it.
2007-08-23 13:24:44 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Of course it does; that's cientific. However, this treatment also needs to be accompanied by a psychotherapy.
2007-08-24 09:32:13 · answer #8 · answered by inka 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it masks ir but it still helps
2007-08-23 13:20:50 · answer #9 · answered by Nora G 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It does both or either depending upon the circumstances. Or sometimes neither.
2007-08-23 13:22:03 · answer #10 · answered by DrIG 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋