• April 24, 2024

According to several research studies, more than half of patients who take a first medication as part of the treatment against depression, do not reach the cure of the disease at eight weeks of management.

These patients report improvement in symptoms in their treatment for depression, but they are not able to answer with a "Yes" to the question: "Do you find yourself in the mood you had before feeling depressed?"

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Do not accept partial improvements

Depression is like any other disease that we are going to treat ourselves with a specialist doctor, and we should not be conformists obtaining only a response of partial improvement after treatment.

An example would be to go to the gastroenterologist for gastritis and that after a long treatment and costs, one has to settle for an "almost no longer burns my stomach mouth".

For mental health specialists, treatment-resistant depression is defined as those symptoms that we can not cure after performing two antidepressant treatments. This includes the use of medication or psychotherapy without obtaining the full answer.

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Management of antidepressants

The symptoms that most frequently resist improvement in antidepressant treatment are apathy, lack of enjoyment in pleasant activities, attention and concentration, irritability and intolerance, and the feeling of a good night's sleep.

We currently have protocols and strict antidepressant management processes, which allow us to deal with all these residual symptoms or offer patients "complete healing" and the return to live without depression.

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These managements include some types of psychotherapy; pharmacotherapy, with different classes of antidepressant medications, and the use of new technologies such as transcranial magnetic stimulation, effective, novel, painless and free of side effects.

If you have questions or need information about depression, check www.vivesindepresión.org, or you can follow us at @vivesindepre, Facebook Live without depression, or at http: /vivesindepresión.blogspot.com.

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