Is depression easy to treat

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Recently, I gave birth to a baby boy. The whole family was very happy. At the beginning, I was also very happy. But later, I was always thinking about things. I was worried that my work would be affected, that my child would not be well raised, and that I was old when my child grew up. I went to the hospital for examination and said that I had postpartum depression. After treatment is now good, I put depression easy to treat it sort out, for your reference.

Is depression easy to treat

Treatment 1: acute stage treatment, acute episode of depression, treatment is mainly to control the disease, under normal circumstances, patients in 2-4 weeks of medication began to take effect, if the medication for 6-8 weeks is still invalid, should immediately communicate with the doctor, and use other mechanisms of drug treatment.

Treatment 2: consolidation period treatment, depression consolidation period at least in 4-6 months, this stage of the patient's disease is basically stable and improved, but can not be interrupted or stop taking medicine, because during this period of the patient's condition is not very stable, the recurrence rate of the disease is very high, should insist on taking medicine, generally can not reduce the dosage.

Treatment 3: maintenance treatment. The drug treatment strategy of patients with maintenance depression generally follows the following principles, that is, the maintenance treatment for the first onset patients should be 6 months to 8 months, younger, with psychotic symptoms, high risk of suicide, and patients with certain genetic tendency should adhere to the maintenance treatment for at least 2-3 years. The dose of maintenance treatment is based on the treatment dose in acute phase.

matters needing attention

Warm reminder: depression is a high incidence rate of mental illness, such a large number of patients in life, especially the elderly depression, in order to have a happy elderly life, pay attention to the emergence of senile depression, for the elderly depression nursing is more important, the elderly depression nursing far greater than the treatment of senile depression.