Depression and its Psychopharmacology: Treatment Options

Mental Health Nursing
8/30/2019

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
About Mental Health Illness - Depression.............................................................................2
Depression Symptoms among Teens and Children...........................................................3
Depression symptoms among older adults.........................................................................3
Psychopathology of the Depression.......................................................................................4
Psychopharmacology useful for Depression..........................................................................5
Psychotherapy....................................................................................................................6
Education to Patient...............................................................................................................7
Tips or education for the treatment of depression..............................................................8
Alternative treatment options for Depression........................................................................8
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................9
References................................................................................................................................11

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Introduction
Mental Health is comprised of social, psychological, and emotional well-being. It
influences how people think, act, and feel. It also supports in determining how people handle
stress, interact with others, and make choices. Mental Health is considered to be important at
each stage of life, from the stage of childhood and adolescence through adulthood. It can
influence the relationship, physical health, and daily life (Mental Health. Gov, 2019). Mental
health also talks about the ability of a person to enjoy the life, to maintaining the balance
between life efforts and activities for attaining psychological resilience. The intent of this
paper is to discuss regarding a mental health illness that is depression and its associated
psychopharmacology that can be utilized for this illness. In addition to this, the paper is
discussing regarding the causes of depression and other treatment options that can be
considered to treat the illness.
About Mental Health Illness - Depression
Depression is said to be a common and severe medical illness that adversely influence
how people feel, think, and act. Providentially, it is one of the treatable illnesses. Depression
results in generating the feelings of sadness or loss of interest in the activities that used to be
enjoyed once (Bruce, Raue, Sheeran & Reilly, 2012). It can result in number of physical and
emotional issues and can decline the ability of the person to work at home and at work. There
are different types of depression such as Dysthymia, Bipolar Disorder, Seasonal depression,
Psychotic depression, and Major depression. Some of the clinical manifestations of
depression are discussed below”
 Feelings of hopelessness, tearfulness, sadness, or emptiness

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 Loss of pleasure or interest in many of the normal activities like sports, hobbies, or
sex (NHS, 2019)
 Slowed body movements, speaking, or thinking
 Unexplained physical issues such as back pain or headache
 Anxiety, agitation, or restlessness
 Reducing hunger and weight loss or weight gain due to increasing food cravings
Depression Symptoms among Teens and Children
Some of the common symptoms in younger children may comprise worry, being
underweight, sadness, clinginess, pains, irritability, denying going to school, and linginess.
Among teenagers, the symptoms can be negative feeling, poor performance, sadness,
sensitive, irritability, anger, poor performance, addicting to drugs, using recreational drugs
sleeping too much, losing interest, avoiding social interaction, eating too much, etc. (Mayo
Clinic, 2018)
Depression symptoms among older adults
Depression is not a normal portion of the getting older, and it must not be taken lightly.
Unluckily, people mostly take depression lightly and goes undiagnosed in aging, and they
may be unwilling to take help (Healthline, 2019). Depression symptoms can de diverse in
older people like:
 Sleeping problem, fatigue
 Memory loss or changing personality
 Thinking to commit suicide among older men
 Physical pain or aches
 Mostly like to stay at home, in place of going out for doing new things or getting
socialize (Mayo Clinic, 2018)