Depression also know as major depressive disorder or clinical depression is a mood disorder that causes a persistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest [2].
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Depression Types
There are multiple types of depression. An individual's depression can be composed of one or multiple of those types [2].
- Anixous distress
- Mixed features
- Melancholic features
- Atypical features
- Psychotic features
- Catatonia
- Peripartium onset
- Seasonal pattern
Depression Causes
Depression does not spring from simply having too much or too little of a certain chemical, rather than there are multiple intrinsic and external causes including faulty mood regulation, genetics, stress, medications, health issues. Several of those causes interact to bring about depression [3].
Antidepressants
Antidepressants are class of drugs that are used to treat depression. Most common are Selective serotonin ReUptake Inhibitors (SSRIs) [4]:
- fluoxetine (Prozac)
- sertraline (Zoloft)
- paroxetine (Paxil),
- fluvoxamine (Luvox)
- citalopram (Celexa)
- escitalopram (Lexapro)
SSRIs cause dependencies including withdrawal symptoms and even some cases even addictions [5].
Antidepressants do not work so well to treat depression as marketed [6,7].
References
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- Depression (major depressive disorder)
- What causes depression?
- What are the real risks of antidepressants?
- Do SSRIs Cause Dependence and Addiction?
- Why Antidepressants Don't Work for Treating Depression
- Selective publication of antidepressant trials and its influence on apparent efficacyPMID: 18199864 DOI: 10.1056/NEJMsa065779
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Collection: Disease
