How to treat manic depression

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My girlfriend is very upset, diagnosed with depression, but took more than a year's medicine, just took 2 days of medicine, obviously feel improved, let me share with you how to treat manic depression experience.

How to treat manic depression

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

We suggest that we should pay attention to: nutrition should not stimulate, depression patients should pay attention to their diet, nutrition to avoid stimulation, from the perspective of daily diet to prevent menopausal depression, experts say, middle-aged friends diet can not be picky, should be easy to digest and nutritious food, timing quantitative. The effective way to prevent depression is to eat more high calcium and protein foods. Menopausal women to quit smoking, stimulating drinks do not drink, excessive drinking will cause depression. Learn self decompression, menopausal middle-aged friends, no chaos is in the physical or psychological will produce great changes, so the character tends to be sensitive, stubborn, suspicious and even irritable.