Non-Pharmacological Therapies for Major Depressive Disorders

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Introduction:
Depression is also referred to as Major Depressive Disorders, which is found to be
explained by the feeling of sorrow, sadness, loss of interest from everything (Otte et al.,
2016). Depression is found to be ranging from mild to severe and can be temporary to
permanent. The Major Depressive Disorders is one of the serious problem of world and in
US, almost 7 per cent of the patients under the age group of 18 years or more in 2015
(Schmaal et al., 2016). Major Depressive Disorders has been better understood among the
medical community and it has been found that these type of depression condition can easily
be treated by the use of non-pharmacological therapy (Kaiser et al., 2015). Below is a
discussed about the Major Depressive Disorders and the non-pharmacological therapies along
with role of the nursing staffs in order to provide these therapies.
Major Depressive Disorders:
Major Depressive Disorders is also stated as clinical depression. It is one of the
important health condition which has the capability of effected a person in many aspects of
his life (Cipriani et al., 2018). Major Depressive Disorders is found to effect the attitude and
behaviour of a person which will ultimately harm various physical as well as mental
functions which includes diet, sleep, academics and social involvements (Cai et al., 2015).
Individuals suffering from Major Depressive Disorders have the tendency to lose
concentration and interest from activities and they also face trouble in performing daily
activities. And if the conditions turn serious they may have thoughts of hurting themselves or
committing suicide (Thornicroft et al., 2017). There are two non-pharmacological therapies
that can be used to provide treatment to the patients suffering from Major Depressive
Disorders which are Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) and Interpersonal therapy
(IPT).

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Non pharmacological therapies:
Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT): the mindfulness-based cognitive therapy is
being designed in order to provide help to people who have been suffering from severe
conditions of Major Depressive Disorders (Segal & Teasdale, 2018). According to Baer,
(2015), the therapy extracts the idea from cognitive therapy and blends it with meditative
exercise and attitude focusing on mindfulness. It teaches the person suffering from depression
disorder to break the negative feelings and thoughts from his/her mind which is causing the
state of depression, sorrow and sadness so that they can eliminate the depression condition
before it becomes permanent (Alsubaie et al., 2017).
The Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) implements practices such as
meditation which are found to help patients in preventing the feelings of sorrow, sadness and
depression and also avoid increase in severity of the depression condition (Farb et al., 2018).
It can better serve as an approach for people who suffer from severe depression and has made
being depressed as a habit (Alsubaie et al., 2017). The Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy
(MBCT) is one of the important treatment that has been showing effective outcomes in
helping people suffering from Major Depressive Disorders. It helps to delete the thought of
negativity and depression from a person which helps him/her to perform their daily activity
and cop up with the others (Parsons et al., 2017).
Interpersonal therapy (IPT): it is a focused, time-restricted and evidence based measure
which is used in order to treat Major Depressive Disorders (Hetrick et al., 2016). According
to Rothberg, (2017), the purpose of the Interpersonal therapy (IPT) is to develop and provide
a better quality of treatment to improve the suffering patient’s social and personal
relationship). The therapy provides enhanced strategies in order to treat the issues of a patient
in between four specific portions (Zuroff et al., 2017). The therapy addresses social, personal
isolations and deficits from the person, resolve any kind of grief the person poses, helps to