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Post by Seanne Facho AUSOM on Apr 3, 2017 3:39:11 GMT -4
Its true how depression can be presented differently from person to person. Possible causes can include combination of biological, psychological and social sources of distress. Although antidepressants can be effective for many people, they may present as serious risk to some especially in children, teens and young adults. Antidepressants may have side effects but may lessen over time. Scanning a patients brain with fMRI and then adjusting TMS magnet so it targets the brain area with abnormal connectivity in a person with different depression subtypes is useful in helping individuals patients. It would be interesting to find out the cost of this non pharmaceutical treatment.
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Post by Josiane Asaba on Apr 3, 2017 17:25:05 GMT -4
Major Depressive Disorder — are characterized by an overwhelming feeling of sadness, isolation, and despair that lasts two weeks or longer at a time. Depression isn’t just an occasional feeling of being sad or lonely, like most people experience from time to time. Instead, a person feels like they’ve sunk into a deep, dark hole with no way out and no hope for things ever changing. A person who suffers from a major depressive disorder must either have a depressed mood or a loss of interest or pleasure in daily activities consistently for at least a 2 week period. This depressed mood must represent a significant change from the person’s normal mood. Social, occupational, educational, or other important functioning must also be negatively impacted by the change in mood. It is always hard for me to see someone with depression and going through such a dark time in life where they feel like there is no hope. Even when I talk to some patients who have lost hope, i wish there was another way to get them out of their dark hole. It is good to know that there is the electroconvulsive therapy can help some of those resistant to the depressive medications.
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Post by Josiane Asaba on Apr 3, 2017 17:26:03 GMT -4
Major Depressive Disorder — are characterized by an overwhelming feeling of sadness, isolation, and despair that lasts two weeks or longer at a time. Depression isn’t just an occasional feeling of being sad or lonely, like most people experience from time to time. Instead, a person feels like they’ve sunk into a deep, dark hole with no way out and no hope for things ever changing. A person who suffers from a major depressive disorder must either have a depressed mood or a loss of interest or pleasure in daily activities consistently for at least a 2 week period. This depressed mood must represent a significant change from the person’s normal mood. Social, occupational, educational, or other important functioning must also be negatively impacted by the change in mood. It is always hard for me to see someone with depression and going through such a dark time in life where they feel like there is no hope. Even when I talk to some patients who have lost hope, i wish there was another way to get them out of their dark hole. It is good to know that there is the electroconvulsive therapy can help some of those resistant to the depressive medications.
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Post by Mythri Samboju on Apr 5, 2017 1:48:35 GMT -4
Once I heard a statement that this is "practicing medicine" which I believe to be true. There are always going to be advancements which we definitely need to better help people, and I think this test is on the way to becoming that. I think it's hard to treat psychiatric illness because I truly think it's more based on insight more than anything. A lot of it is not objective it's mostly subjective which makes psychiatry a challenge and interesting at the same time. I also think there should be a standard for treating/diagnosing mental health illness which kind of does become hard at times. As the article was talking about people have many different symptoms and there could be so many different causes and I think one thing that should be evaluated when a patient comes in is communication between the therapist and the psychiatrist to get more of a holistic view on what their typical symptoms are and their full history which might give more insight to what they are going through which could lead to better outcomes. As for the fMRI being into effect, I think it's a very useful test but it will take some time before it becomes the standard, which I really do hope it does. I also think it is quite interesting how different connections in the brain can cause different types of depression which also could be very useful in treating a lot of the population.
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