Understanding depression

Article Abstract:

Patients and users of mental health services in the UK often find that their fundamental feelings are overlooked. Most supporters of a medical model of mental health believe that antidepressants are the most appropriate treatment for depression. Antidepressants can shorten the natural course of depression, but drug therapy makes no attempt to address the causes of depression or to emphasize the importance to the healing process of being listened to. Treatment of depression must include an opportunity for individual and group therapy, allowing the patient to play an active role in the healing process.

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Shadow of a doubt

Article Abstract:

A sufferer from depression gives a personal account of her illness and the part psychoanalysis is playing in her recovery. Depression is apparent in many members of her family and she, herself, has tried to commit suicide on many occasions, once at the age of eleven. She received hospital treatment following a breakdown, but it is psychoanalyis, first in group sessions and then individually, which has been most successful. She has found the 30 years of treatment hard work and financially expensive, but it has changed her outlook on life.

Evaluation, Psychoanalysis

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Depression in life-threatening illness and its treatment

Article Abstract:

Patients suffering from a life-threatening illness may also suffer from depression, although this should not be regarded as inevitable. Nursing interventions which can help patients with depression and enhance their quality of life include: treat the physical symptoms; encourage self-esteem, sense of control, independence, and hope; teach relaxation techniques; and offer psychotherapy, aromatherapy, or reflexology.

Methods, Care of the sick

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