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Medications Used for Anxiety and DepressionMedications Used for Anxiety and Depression Welcome to our website. After we discuss the families of chemicals, we need to put the usage of these drugs in their proper perspective, along with the other therapies. We must understand the role each form of treatment plays in your recovery picture. Drugs may be a beginning, but a regiment of diet, exercise, and emotional counseling should be a part as well. Medication alone will rarely solve all the problems by itself. Depression or anxiety is most often a multi-dimensional issue.
An imbalance of the neurotransmitters serotonin and norepinephrine in the brain play a major part in depression and anxiety in both its short term and longer-term forms. Drugs treating anxiety and depression work on these imbalances, and are of several classifications; they are SSRI’s, (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors), tricyclic antidepressants (tricyclics), and MOAI’s (monoamine oxadase inhibitors). The SSRI’s work only on the serotonin in the brain and include Lexapro, Celexa, Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft. Tricyclics and MAO inhibitors work not only on serotonin, but also on the norepinephrine levels as well. Because of this, they have a broader list of more serious side effects. These medications include but are not limited to Elavil (amitriptylene), Cymbalta, Effexor, Effexor XR, Aventyl, Pamelor, Norpramin, Tofranil, Wellbutrin, Nardil, and Parnate. Nardil and Parnate are very powerful drugs with many dangerous side effects. These drugs should be a last resort if no other prescriptions work. For instance, eating black licorice, aged cheeses, or alcohol with either of these two medications can cause death.
Anti depressants have a host of side effects that may include increase or decrease in appetite, sexual activity, dry mouth, sleeplessness or drowsiness, irritability, high blood pressure, increased heart rate, glaucoma, blurred vision, constipation, diarrhea, inability to concentrate, headache, among others. Many of the antidepressants have an incompatibility with other medicines also. For these reasons, take great care in their use.
Any chemical will act to balance the brain, so to speak, by providing the missing elements so it can function properly. If the cause of your depression is the simple imbalance of these chemicals in your brain, then this is just the ticket. However, this is rarely the case. The reason; depression is usually caused by unmet emotional needs in childhood. As we go through traumatic events, our brain chemistry can undergo changes. These imbalances will rectify themselves as we complete regiments of therapy and address our emotional issues on our own. The lack of balanced chemistry (serotonin, and norepinephrine) may not be the cause of our depression, for depression can cause the lack of that balanced chemistry as its symptom. If the real cause were unresolved emotional issues in childhood, no amount of drugs will compensate enough to balance out our emotions. Our lives will not improve. While some people need Medications for Anxiety and Depression for treatment, less than ten percent recover fully with the medication alone. It is still wise to begin a drug for anxiety and depression, since it is a primary step to begin at the simplest level, while counseling for other issues begins, at higher levels. If the issues are deep enough, we may need group counseling in a supervised setting. If finances and time are not available to you for groups, then self-help can work, but you will have to work at it and stay focused. However if you are serious enough about your own recovery, you can overcome your emotional condition. What matters is the intensity of the individual in his or her own recovery; and employing all weapons of healing is the wisest choice, not just one weapon of drugs, hypnosis, or counseling alone. Always begin with the simplest correction first at the lowest level. Begin with medications first, and look deep into your past for signs of some unmet emotional need from which you may be running. What you depression may be about is your soul’s growth. That may be a reason why drugs will not completely solve all your world’s problems. God gave you your special problems and obstacles in life for you to work through and resolve by learning lessons. If you do not face those problems, understand them, you will not achieve your intended destiny of happiness. God wants you to understand something good about yourself that you do not understand yet. God wants you to be happy, empowered and fulfilled. This depression and anxiety that you are presently stuck in are just temporary conditions in which God never intends for you to stay. For help with Medications for Anxiety or Depression, consult a doctor whom you trust. Seek free treatments first, since for many of us, cost is a prohibitive factor. For more on this subject please consider our first in series book Overcoming Depression from Emotional Abuse/The Tools of Your Mind. In it, we take you through your spiritual journey back home to your Original Self. We talk about God's purpose behind that soul’s journey, as we follow our heart’s dreams to our ultimate destiny. We answer many questions about selfishness, prosperity, psychotherapy, and finding our dreams and happiness. We share much about boundaries. We also talk about the spiritual controls we have within to bring our good to us. Those controls are our Sincerity Switch, Spontaneity Switch, and lastly our Feelings and Dreams Switch. Thank you for visiting us today and please keep in touch, sharing your trials and your victories with us. We promise to answer personally every Email that we receive. Shayne and Lori North in Aurora, Colorado
Overcoming Depression from Emotional Abuse/The Tools of Your Mind The Book
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