Are society “problem”: do we have problems working, in marriage, with children, with neighbors, with food, with organization, with the goals of life?
We classify everything as problems, but we could actually call them inevitable experiences. We get used to giving a negative name, a sick and desperate character to everything that happens in our lives.
- The word? It puts us in a victim position and makes us think that we will need outside help to get out of this situation we are immersed in.
Psychotropic prescriptions, especially anxiolytics and antidepressants, are given without much discretion. Pills are prescribed to solve normal life facts that we call problems ourselves.
Think for a moment: is an antidepressant capable of remedying the fact that your partner has abandoned you, are you able to improve your relationship with an annoying boss?A recent study published in the medical journal lancet makes us understand the effects of antidepressants on children and adolescents.
This research involved more than 5,000 people with depression and 34 tests and 14 different antidepressant treatments were used, it was concluded that none of them reported any benefit.
In fact, participants had many side effects, including increased suicidal thoughts.
We need to distinguish between endogenous and exogenous depression, the first is caused by chemical imbalances in the brain, especially the lack of Serotonin, the second is a reaction to major changes or loss of life, or even to complicated situations such as the loss of a job, the death of a loved one, the change of residence, etc.
However, cases of endogenous depression are very rare, with the most common being the others. The problem is that doctors treat this type of reactive depression with antidepressants that are not helpful to the patient. The improvement is often due to the placebo effect and not to the drug itself.
Anti-depressant pills don’t know what’s wrong with you, they don’t listen to you and they don’t even put you in place, they have an analgesic effect on your body and you think you’re suffering less, but that’s not the solution to your problem.
Psychotropics have become very popular and the patient usually asks for the antidepressant, without considering other options, the fear of suffering and not being happy is so great that we prefer to opt for the fastest and easiest way.
In this sense, it is necessary for the healthcare professional to strive to study your case and check if you really need pills or some kind of psychotherapy, is it that by now the doctor should know how to say?your patient, no matter how you react.
To treat exogenous depression, psychotherapy is the main alternative, what is the reason?As we said earlier, antidepressant only acts at the physiological level, it does not correct biochemical imbalances of the brain.
However, these imbalances associated with depression are not yet clear. Studies have not yet confirmed whether decreased Serotonin in the brain is the cause or consequence of depression.
The drug can’t teach you anything and you don’t learn anything about it. It will not give you tools to deal with these problems or understand the cause of your depression.
A therapist is a person like you, he also had or has problems like you, he can sympathize with you, put on his shoes, offer you a friendly shoulder to cry on, and once all your wounds are drained he can teach you many things. strategies to get out of this black hole.
It’s slower, it takes effort, because what it’s worth is sometimes harder, but little by little you’ll change the way you see yourself, the world and the future, the way you deal with life.
Remember that problems are inevitable, they are part of life. Suffering is unpleasant, but it will be worse if you don’t have the courage to face it. Life doctor is like covering wounds without finding a cure.