A Guide for Adults With Depression

Mon Jan 26, 2009, 3:47 pm | 1 Comment

This guide can help you work with your doctor or nurse to choose medicines for depression. It covers:

• Common medicines for adults with depression

• Side effects

• Price

This guide is based on a government-funded review of research about the medicines often used to treat adults with depression.

This guide does not cover:

• Treatment of depression in children or teens

• Postpartum depression (“baby blues”)

• Depression that is part of another mental health condition like bipolar disorder (previously called manic-depressive disorder)

• Older antidepressant medicines like amitriptyline (Elavil®) and phenelzine (Nardil®)

• Other ways to treat depression such as counseling, light therapy, and herbal supplements like St. John’s Wort

Read the guide on the Government website in full: Antidepressant Medicines – A Guide for Adults With Depression

In a Nutshell
I have never had the problem of depression and I thank God for that. With this lousy economy, if you ever thought that you needed help in this regard, please do get it.

What do you think?

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