First you'll need someone in your family to contact individuals, groups, or families by mental health professionals, including psychotherapists, psychiatrists, psychologists, clinical social workers, counselors, and suitably trained psychiatric nurses to help alleviate your symptomology.
Psychotherapy if sucessful can reduce symptoms of depression by a stance that challenges a person's enduring self-defeating cognition / thoughts and changes counter-productive behaviors that further deepen your mood.
PDT is a form of psychotherapy that reveal's the unconscious content of a client's psyche in an effort to alleviate psychic tension , it is lesser studied and is based on psychoanalysis but it has been showned to make patients happier than CBT.
CBT is more functionally orientated it helps you manage in the real world by helping you solve problems concerning dysfunctional emotions, behaviors and cognitions through a goal-oriented, systematic procedure in the here and now. It's more studied than PDT and it is more effective in alleviating symptoms in Adolescents.
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Logotherapy, is form of existential psychotherapy developed by Austrian psychiatrist Viktor Frankl, addresses the filling of an "existential vacuum" associated with feelings of futility and meaninglessness. It is posited that this type of psychotherapy may be useful for depression in older adolescents
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Now on to drugs , The effects of antidepressants are somewhat superior to those of psychotherapy, especially in cases of chronic major depression, although in short-term trials more patients—especially those with less serious forms of depression—cease medication than cease psychotherapy, most likely due to adverse effects from the medication and to patients' preferences for psychological therapies over pharmacological treatments.
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Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are the primary medications prescribed owing to their effectiveness, relatively mild side effects, and because they are less toxic in overdose than other antidepressants. Patients who do not respond to one SSRI can be switched to another antidepressant, and this results in improvement in almost 50% of cases
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Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a procedure whereby pulses of electricity are sent through the brain via two electrodes, usually one on each temple, to induce a seizure while the patient is under a brief period of general anesthesia. Hospital psychiatrists may recommend ECT for cases of severe major depression which have not responded to antidepressant medication or, less often, psychotherapy or supportive interventions. ECT can have a quicker effect than antidepressant therapy and thus may be the treatment of choice in emergencies such as catatonic depression where the patient has stopped eating and drinking, or where a patient is severely suicidal. ECT is probably more effective than pharmacotherapy for depression in the immediate short-term, although a landmark community-based study found much lower remission rates in routine practice.
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