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Antidepressants: Are They Really Necessary
- By Endre Ady
- Published September 29th, 2008
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Are you suffering from Depression? Or is someone in your family suffering from it? If yes, then you must be trying your hands on antidepressants! Am I Right? But are they necessary?
Chances are either you or the other person who is suffering from this disorder has a prescription for an antidepressant. The fact is that antidepressants have become conventional medicine’s default drug of choice, when it comes to the case of depression. There are three different families of antidepressants, MAOIs, SSRIs and tricyclics, and the fact is that each is geared up with a diverse chemical mechanism. All the drugs work with your neurotransmitters — these are those brain chemicals that are responsible for regulating your mood, sleep, and appetite, as well as other other things. They also have very strong side effects.
As a result, physicians take a great amount of care in prescribing them to people who really need them. But the fact is that as long as the problem gets too severe, one should not take the antidepressants in excess. It is due to the fact
that is a person will get used to it, then he will never be able to cope up the daily schedules without the intake of antidepressants at least once in a day. He will get used to it. And that is bad.
The fact is that these antidepressants are so rampant, that they are not prescribed so easily! The question now arises is that can so many of us have the major form of depression that prescribes such severe drug use? I doubt it! But exceptions are always there!
This doesn’t mean that people around you or others don’t feel depressed or have symptoms that have any kind of concern or relation with depression, but many such symptoms can be related to stress.
This stress can be in a lot of forms. Some of the most common forms of stress deals with emotional and/or physical — that can be resolved without pharmaceutical drugs. But a lot of times, psychological treatment can also prove worthy! According to a lot of studies it has been proved that antidepressants are no more effective in treating a mild form of depression than a placebo. They are just a look like of medicines but can act as a reliever of illness!
Chances are either you or the other person who is suffering from this disorder has a prescription for an antidepressant. The fact is that antidepressants have become conventional medicine’s default drug of choice, when it comes to the case of depression. There are three different families of antidepressants, MAOIs, SSRIs and tricyclics, and the fact is that each is geared up with a diverse chemical mechanism. All the drugs work with your neurotransmitters — these are those brain chemicals that are responsible for regulating your mood, sleep, and appetite, as well as other other things. They also have very strong side effects.
As a result, physicians take a great amount of care in prescribing them to people who really need them. But the fact is that as long as the problem gets too severe, one should not take the antidepressants in excess. It is due to the fact
The fact is that these antidepressants are so rampant, that they are not prescribed so easily! The question now arises is that can so many of us have the major form of depression that prescribes such severe drug use? I doubt it! But exceptions are always there!
This doesn’t mean that people around you or others don’t feel depressed or have symptoms that have any kind of concern or relation with depression, but many such symptoms can be related to stress.
This stress can be in a lot of forms. Some of the most common forms of stress deals with emotional and/or physical — that can be resolved without pharmaceutical drugs. But a lot of times, psychological treatment can also prove worthy! According to a lot of studies it has been proved that antidepressants are no more effective in treating a mild form of depression than a placebo. They are just a look like of medicines but can act as a reliever of illness!