depression treatment without meds

Is it true that some people can literally not recover from depression without the use of medication no matter what they do?

Hi Mom, First thing I must say to you is this is NOT your battle against depression. YOU cannot win or lose it. Do not blame yourself for whatever happens, you cannot change it yourself. You can try and help and getting her to come to you is by far the best thing you can do. So she has someone who loves her around. But it is never YOUR battle. Never. For her to feel good or better or at least settled she needs treatment and she needs to do what the doctor says and take the treatment advised.

m supposed to maybe start treatment after the 11th of Oct and I know a lot of depression meds take 4 to 6 weeks to start working. Once again any advice and or perspective on this would be greatly appreciated.

that and she takes my insurance so I will take what I can get! I know depression and anxiety come with treatment so if you guys could help me with this I would appriciate it! .Im glad my hep doc made me do this before treatment otherwise it might have gotten bad...Im already severly moody and stuff...so getting it under controll now might help....

these meds can make a huge difference in peoples lives and for many will help them get through treatment since the tx drugs can cause depression.

Many ppl who suffer from depression have complaints of feeling physically unwell as well. It can vary from anxiety to restlessness, feeling suffocated to pain. Depression affects everyone differently BUT never gets better without treatment. Most depression meds don't address the physical problems so if you are suffering physically make sure you mention it to your dr so that they can be sure to cover all the symptoms.

Hello and welcome! It sounds like you've been at this for a long time. There are different kinds of depression, but I think what you're talking about is clinical or chronic depression. Unfortunately. most people diagnosed with clinical depression are kind of stuck with it. That doesn't mean it cannot be managed and treated however. Like you said, it's kind of like diabetes or hypertension...

The success rate of medications for anxiety and depression is drastically increased when therapy in included in the treatment plan. If you're not in therapy, ask yoir doc for a referral right away. Getting better also involves work on your part, which isn't always easy. When we're taking meds and in therapy, there are still going to be bad days. We have to push ourselves, even when we don't want to.

I found several things online that addressed the issue of depression without sadness. I was wondering if anyone else had dealt with this problem and what was prescribed to them. I'm going to make an appointment to see my psychiatrist and see if she can help.

Understood and I'll try to wait until I can get a public statement from a provider agency about glycine but what the one my psychopharmocologist spoke to detailed was that it could be considered as an adjunct to a conventional antipsychotic agent and would be addeed to their formulary in cases where known treatments weren't working out and they were a research psychiatrist who had taken this into further understanding.

Well, if you feel that way, then it might be time to get a new doctor. You have to understand that treating any illness, let alone a mental illness is largely guess work and trial and error. It's not like there is only ONE specific way to approaching a medication based treatment. That's not to say that there aren't bad doctors out there, but what I'm saying is, it's easy to be critical when you're feeling lousy and just want someone to "fix" you.

Hello. :) I suffer from bipolar type 2 and I'm taking lexapro 20mg, anti depressant, and lamictal (probably spelled it wrong) 100mg, mood stabilizer. Since I have started taking them, I have definately improved, however, I'm not satisfied.

Wow! So awesome! There is absolutely a correlation to exercise and decreasing anxiety and even depression. Regulation of our body's nervous system can happen through exercise. We all know you release 'happy chemicals' when you exercise but you also increase your dopamine when you accomplish something (like saying you want to exercise and you actually do it). Cortisol is also impacted and that is our stress hormone. We have less. This is a 'good' thing.

I have never heard of it, either. why don't you do yourself a huge favor and go get some real meds from a doctor. don't go another day without getting help! i did that for about 2 years and looking back at that time i always wonder why it took me so long to finally get help. you think it will go away on it's own, but then you start to think that this is how i am and this is how life is.

Sounds like you've located a couple of good candidates among MDs up there. Many LLMDs here in the US don't use IV treatment, just oral treatment using pills or liquid, depending on the coinfections. Sometimes IV is used, but I don't have the feeling it's done commonly or as a first resort. Oral abx are said to be just as effective in most cases, and less risky to the patient (due to risk of infection from IV/PICC lines).

t know the state of current thinking about Xanax in the mental health provider biz, but it was my my impression that some benzodiazapenes (Klonopin, for example) could still be an appropriate part of a treatment plan in those without a history of substance abuse.

The only thing I can say is that treating with bipolar may be difficult because interferon causes severe depression even in healthy individuals without psychiatric issues. If your doctor thinks you can try treatment, you should be followed up very closely, because your bipolar can worsen. How bad is your bipolar? Is it well-controlled? What medicines do you take for it?

m a little curious about what i been reading Alot of people are talking about how they have to take all of these psychotropic meds WHY? is it the disease that makes people need these meds or the treatment?

You need medication and therapy. We rarely can beat depression on our own, and that's okay. Accept that you need help with this and get the available help. We've all been there and without medication I'm not sure I would still be here! Depression is doing all this to you, so fight back and refuse to let it do this by seeking help!

I think the only way to truly find out for sure if your depression can be treated Naturally and without meds, is to simply take the "Pepsi Challenge." You never really know until you try. I have already tried many times and failed. I have probably read more books on naturaly treating depression than most Holistic advocates. I gave it my all, but I find that the meds just work better. There is a whole ton of info regarding the natural treatemnt of depression on the internet.

I did 48 weeks of treatment without anti-depressants. I did use an occasional (very occasional) xanax for anxiety when I was trying to sleep.

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