How to treat patients with depression?

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With the acceleration of social rhythm, people's life pressure is increasing day by day. When some people encounter huge pressure, they don't deal with it properly in time. They suppress themselves day by day. After a long time, they will develop into depression tendency or depression. Many patients have been diagnosed in the treatment stage, the disease is not cured, more and more serious; Or cure a period of time after recurrence. How to treat patients with depression? Let's talk about it

How to treat patients with depression?

Drug therapy is the main treatment for moderate or above depressive episodes. At present, the first-line antidepressants in clinic mainly include selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI, which represents fluoxetine, paroxetine, sertraline, fluvoxamine, citalopram and escitalopram), serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRI, which represents venlafaxine and duloxetine) Norepinephrine and specific serotonin antidepressant (Nassa, representative drug mirtazapine) etc. Traditional tricyclic and tetracyclic antidepressants and monoamine oxidase inhibitors are less used because of the large adverse reactions.

For patients with depressive episode with obvious psychosocial factors, psychological treatment is often combined with drug treatment. The commonly used psychotherapy methods include supportive psychotherapy, cognitive behavior therapy, interpersonal therapy, marriage and family therapy, and psychodynamic therapy. Among them, the effect of cognitive behavior therapy on depressive episode has been recognized.

Physical therapy: in recent years, a new method of physical therapy, repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS), has emerged, which is mainly suitable for mild to moderate depressive episodes. Active treatment and depression comorbid with other physical diseases, material dependence, anxiety disorders.

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Depression is mostly liver qi stagnation, eat more soothing liver qi and light food. In addition, you can also eat more emotional food, such as bananas and chocolate. If appropriate, you can have some group activities to increase your hobbies