There are certain people that are diagnosed with depression and start a treatment. However, the symptoms do not improve, it means most of the time that you have treatment resistant depression which means that even though medications along with therapy helps the patients, for these patients is not enough and may not help at all or the symptoms may show up again. As regular depression, treatment resistant depression also varies from Mild to Severe so it requires trying different types of medications to indentify which one really helps. This also implies visiting a mental health doctor such as a psychiatrist, psychologist or another professional for counseling.
Probably just one medication won´t help, and it might be a long, exhausting process where the antidepressants must be switched, another antidepressant or medicine for a different condition must be combined or added. The most common medicines that are prescribed in addition to the antidepressant are:
In addition, the therapies are also different and needs to be searched until the right one for the patient is found:
- Cognitive behavioral therapy.
- Interpersonal psychotherapy.
- Family or marital therapy.
- Group psychotherapy.
- Psychodynamic treatment.
The following treatments/ procedures are also used, which involves magnetic stimulation or electric charges:
- Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
- Vagus Nerve stimulation (VNS)
- Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
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