Xuzhou Mental Health Service Station: Every depressed patient is unfortunate. When encountering such a problem, they are most concerned about two things, one is whether they can get better, and the other is how long it will take to recover.
Can depression be cured?
As a patient with depression for two years, this is the sentence I ask the most. I don’t just ask my friends, family, partner, doctor, etc. I have asked myself countless times. So now that depression has been away from me for five years, I can tell you clearly that depression can be cured!
Clinical data also show that more than 75% of patients can recover after receiving systemic drugs and psychological treatment.
In other words, depression is not an incurable disease, but there will be some pain and suffering during the recovery process, but now that it has happened, we must face it positively.
How long does it take to recover from depression?
Clinically considered indicators of depression recovery: after receiving professional treatment for at least 9 months, the main symptoms disappear, and there will be no obvious pathological characteristics for 2 to 3 months, that is, the patient's happiness can be maintained at a normal level.
In other words, it takes at least 2-4 weeks to take antidepressants during the acute stage of depression. To truly recover, at least a systematic and adequate course of treatment is required. For most cases of depression, it takes about half a year to notice significant improvement in mood. So don’t worry about this!
Don't be overly obsessed with recovery time.
Many patients with depression pay special attention to their depression recovery time. This is actually a very big misunderstanding. If you do this, it will only increase your psychological burden and will not help the disease much.
The first step in treating depression is to accept the fact that you have depression and take the first step to receive treatment.
Depression is a mental disorder related to mood. Over the past 15 years, a large number of clinical drug experiments have proven that antidepressant drugs are safe and effective in treating depression. And current research on psychotherapy does help depression.
So just leave these problems to the doctor. It may be better to "turn a blind eye" to the disease, because depression may often leave you first. If you are too persistent and cannot refuse, then it can only be as difficult to get rid of as a dog-skin plaster. !
Avoid reducing medication on your own.
Many people experience changes in their mood after taking antidepressants and psychotherapy. It’s easy to reduce your own medication at this time. Because many people may feel that after their condition improves to a certain extent, the effect of taking medicine is not so obvious.
However, many studies have shown that stopping medication without authorization will not only increase the chance of recurrence, but also cause patients to enter a persistent bad mood state.
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