ways to receive treatment, because you are performing self-healing, which also gives you more motivation and higher self-esteem, due to the fact you’re helping yourself. It is a safe and fast acting therapy, which shows results, after the first time you try it; heart rate and breathing increases, so this means you are receiving more oxygen, and therefore are becoming healthier and less stress. In my opinion, I knowledge that exercising relieves stress or tension, because I exercised an hour a day, during my exam week and intern made me more alert and motivated. The presence of major depression and other depressive disorders is often an indication of a need for drug treatment. “As the disease has been linked to abnormal levels of neurotransmitters, such as norepinephrine and serotonin; the treatment aims to correct the imbalance in the brain”(Morgan). Great advances have been made in the diagnosis of depression, and larger advances have been made in its treatment. Although, in the past, medication was the primary therapy, that was used, it was found to have predominate side effects. Today, there are more than twenty antidepressant medications that are now available. For instance, some antidepressants, including Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSR’s) and Tricyclic Antidepressants (TCA’s) have shown to have very little side effects; as well as, higher success rates. “TCA’s, such as amitriptyline and imipranine, block both norepinphrine and serotonin reuptake. However, it is still new and is somewhat potient, and results cannot be guaranteed after one or two days. SSRI’s, such as fluoxetine, paroxetine, and sertraline, have minimal efficacy advantages over TCA’s, and may even be less effective in some cases of severe depression. It is also less toxic in overdoses, then that of TCA’s.” (Lader) The recent development of the “selective serotonin reuptake inhibitio...
