Health care takers can take care of depressed people. A doctor, for one, has also training in treating psychotic patients. The type of rule is applicable on doctors, nurses and paramedical staff. If they found that case is serious then they may refer the patient to some nearby psychiatry facilitated hospital. Such healthcare functionaries are having a set of are composed of psychiatrist, psychologist, an educated nurse along with a social worker. In such offices, the psychiatrist is to diagnose the mental disorder and to advise the related labs investigations while job of psychologist is to counsel the patient and advise him to avoid from the mental distress. Job of the social worker is to guide the patient about the general prevalence of the disease and assisting him about medication wherever registered nurse is not available. Before initiating the treatment doctor will ask the patient about symptoms, routine activities, family history, other diseases, overall general health and past experiences which inclined him/ her to such miserable condition. Physical exam will be employed and some lab investigations to address the disease well. Depressive and anxiety related patients needs massive moral support from their family members. During investigations and history taking doctors decide that either the patient symptoms are to which extent mild moderate or severe. No one should underestimate the depression, it’s a real disease and may lead towards serious consequences and without family support and patience no one can be pulled out of this misery. Good news is that depression is curable and mostly patients pass their normal life after overcoming the disease. According to an estimate about 80 percent patients are completely recovered through medications and psycho assisted techniques. In recent time a lot of successful therapies are available to treat the depression including behavioral therapy, cognitive therapy, rational therapy, interpersonal therapy and emotive therapy. In such methods both approaches are implicated psychodynamics and family deployed practices but is also depending upon the financial health, available resources and most important the severity of the indication. In treating depression most important is o work on the cognitive behavior of the patient, as mood swings, recalling the pass events, igniting thoughts, irritating statements, annoying characters and personalities may become the predisposing factors to bring back the patients again in depression and his/ her mental condition may become worsen and treatment of patient may be complicated. Cognitive behavior can be well analyzed on the basis of history taking including events and infuriating characters. Treatment start with supportive statements that life is beautiful and by thinking about past nothing can be added but problems for us and our family we should leave the igniting thoughts and should move forward to bring happiness and success in our life for best benevolence of society and our home. Techniques are just to forget the past characters and event and try to thank God how brilliant and positive objects he has created for us to deliver our positive yield instead the irrelevant and negative thoughts. In Interpersonal therapy, we help the patients to improve his/ her social interaction in society. He is guided to show his strengths of communication, assertiveness, cognition, public speaking, handling public and delivering his own narrative about some topic or subject. Most important along with psychological support and counselling, patients should take their prescribed medicine without any omission, it may lead towards the relapse of the indication.
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