Treatment of Depression: Behavioral Therapies and Medications

Running head: TREATMENT OF DEPRESSION
TREATMENT OF DEPRESSION
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TREATMENT OF DEPRESSION
In the modern stressful environment,
different mood disorders are common
leading to a major issue in behavioral
patterns of individuals. Depression is a
disorder which is tough to diagnose as it has
no physical symptoms apart from a few
behavioral changes (Segal, Williams and
Teasdale 2018). Therefore it is normally
assumed that a person suffers from
depression if they lose interest in their daily
life and routine for two weeks having
constant spells of sadness. Though it has no
physical signs, the effects of depression on
the lifestyle has its effects on the body. It is
the loss of appetite, changed sleeping
patterns lead to physical aftereffects on the
patient. Various methods have been devised
to treat the issue as it is becoming a rising
problem in today’s society. To treat
depression a number of cognitive and
behavioral therapies are used apart from
medication.
The therapeutic techniques used in
treatment of depression takes into account
finding the causal reasons of the depression
among the various patients. The kinds of
interventions used in the treatment of
depression are mainly psychological in
nature. The intervention methods in cases of
depression are based on number of
behavioral therapies. The therapies that can
be considered for the treatment of
depression are Cognitive behavioral therapy
(CBT), Interpersonal therapy (IPT) and
Psychodynamic therapy. The medical
treatment of depression takes into account
numerous hormone inhibiting medications.
Medicines such as serotonin, dopamine and
norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors help in
the treatment of depression.
Other than the traditional treatments
of depression there are a number of
alternative therapies which are used to treat
depression. The techniques used in the
alternative treatments include Electro

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TREATMENT OF DEPRESSION
Convulsive Therapy, Repetitive Transcranial
Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) and Vagus
Nerve Stimulation (VNS). These therapies
take into account alternative techniques
focusing on treatment of the disorders by
electrical and magnetic pulses to treat the
disorders. The alternative treatment options
of depression focus on the various
techniques that may help in treating the
disease by affecting the regions affected by
depression.
The treatment of depression have
been highly criticized for various side-
effects they have on human health. The
increase in the depression symptoms among
individuals in the society is the result of the
long term hectic schedules and lifestyle that
the people currently follow. The
improvement in mood disorders is
dependent on the various sociological
implications of lifestyle in the present
society. Depressive symptoms among people
in the society is the result of hard work and
extreme exposure to the extreme hectic
schedules lead to a fallacy in the minds of
the people regarding their well-being. The
causes of depression among the patients can
only be ascertained by understanding
behavioral patterns among individuals.
Causes of depression among the majority of
people in the society are emotional stress
they undergo.
The behavior therapies like CBT,
IPT and Psychodynamic approaches of
treatment of depression takes into account
behavioral changes among the individuals to
alleviate the depressive symptoms. The
behavioral patterns of the individuals is
result of a number of triggers that initiate
depression. The alleviation of triggers is one
of the best ways in the cure of depression.
The behavior therapies work on triggers of
depression among individuals in the society.
The triggers of depression may lie in a
number of reasons ranging from personal
ambitions to social stress factors among