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Psycho-Pharmacology and Psychotherapy are the main Method of the Depression Treatment
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The combination of all three types of psychiatric care is needed for successful depression treatment. It includes psycho-pharmacology, psychotherapy and social therapy.
Psycho-pharmacology is still the main method of the depression treatment. There is a large group of antidepressants. Often it is needed to combine antidepressant with drugs of other groups, such as tranquilizers, neuroleptics and mood stabilizers (depakine, lamotrigine). At prescription the doctor takes into account the patient's age, gender, duration of disease, individual patient reaction to medications, the presence or absence of other somatic diseases. This allows to determine not only the correct combination of drugs, but also to establish the dose of each drug.
The depression psychotherapy
It is the high psychiatrist’s art to listen, to give advice and to say necessary word or phrase in time. There are a lot of psycho-therapeutic techniques, but each of them is based on the attention to the patient, and his/her support. The psychotherapy starts from the moment of the first meeting with doctor, and ends only after the complete recovery. As a result the doctor becomes advisor, teacher, and friend for the patient. The patient knows that he/she is supported and may get advice from the trusted person. It is the most significant psycho-therapeutic effect.
Sociotherapy
It is necessary to help the patient to solve social and domestic problems; he/she needs care of the relatives, their love and attention. It is good if the patient has a family, a loving husband or wife, attentive and caring children, parents, and friends. No matter how the doctor tries to calm the patient and set him/her to an optimistic mood, it would be difficult to help if there are constant domestic conflicts and social despondency.