Depression Is A Major Cause Of Morbidity Worldwide.

By Pedro Toledo

Depression is one condition that many people encounter today. It can be caused by a wide variety of factors surrounding the person. It can be caused by one's job, family, friends and even finances. Consequentially, it has many different adverse effects as well. Although it affects the way people live their lives, people disregard its presence. However, just like other conditions, depression can worsen if not addressed.

However, the amount of people suffering from depressive symptoms in the world has increased a lot. This may be due to the stressful environment and lifestyle that we are facing on every day basis. Evolution is also changing in many ways with this lifestyle changes and we can gain a lot of understanding from the current health events which we can access through many different sources.

Overcoming depression the natural way should be one of the first solutions that people resort to today. It can range from the simplest and most practical solutions that do not require much effort. It can simply begin by changing a chaotic lifestyle. This simple treatment does not include long term medications and clinical treatments.

However, if you are a person who usually pays attention to the current health events, then you will definitely come across the symptoms and cures of depression and then you will understand that what you have is a health problem which can be cured. This is the first and most important step to be taken when it comes to depression or any kind of disease.

Even more concerning is the latest report published in the Journal of the American Medical Association examining the effectiveness of antidepressants, which demonstrated that there was no real difference between antidepressants and a placebo in the treatment outcomes of mild and moderate depression (Antidepressants aren't the only remedy for milder forms of depression: Robert DeRubeis; Jan 2010). In other words, treating mild or moderate depression with a sugar pill was just as effective! Furthermore, in the treatment of patients with severe depression, there was only a 4 point difference on the scale used to measure the severity of an individual's depression between the antidepressant and a placebo. Strangely, a recent newspaper article in the New York Times was extremely critical of the undue media attention of the results from this study. Its' main argument was that it is the mental health system to blame for over-prescription of antidepressants for mild and moderate depression. Further, it cited that antidepressants are effective in the treatment of severe depression. However, it failed to mention that even in the treatment of severe depression there was only that 4 point difference between the use of the pill and the placebo. Of note, for pharmaceutical companies, depression is big business. The number of Americans taking antidepressants since the mid-1990's has nearly doubled, with at least 27 million taking pills to combat depression (Archives of General Psychiatry). Further, in 2008 alone, 164 million prescriptions were written adding up to almost $10 billion in sales (IMS Health).

There are many doctors who are working very hard to make sure this does not happen and the current health events help us build this awareness by giving us the understanding of the disease, the symptoms, many of the causes, although all the causes are not known, and many ways of treating the problem.

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