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How to Cure Depression?

December 22, 2008


How can I save myself from getting depressed? Is there any safe treatment for it?

Medication is an option to cure depression. Anti depressant pills can help you out in controlling certain symptoms like relationship conflicts, divorce, job pressures, and suicidal thoughts, loss of a loved one and many more. But for that one must consult a doctor. Anti depressants can prove to be life saving in severe cases. One can start feeling better within 2 weeks and may last to 8 weeks.

Psychotherapy is another option to get away with depression. Commonly known as talk-therapy is a process in which a trained professional counsels with the patient suffering from depression. He tries to enter into a relationship with the patient to find out the point where he has to work on. For that the counselor or the therapist must listen to the patient calmly. It can be any case whether the case of anxiety, mental illness, behavioral problem or any other. The work of the therapist is to change the negative or ill thoughts to positive side. Depression affects the patient as well as his family.

Thus the therapist needs to talk to family as well. This therapy may last from 2-3 weeks to twenty weeks depending upon the sessions and the improvement of the patient. Psychotherapy along with medication is considered to be most effective treatment for depression.


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