Can depression be cured?

Depression can be treated, but it must be done under the guidance of a professional doctor. Both the use of medication and self-adjustment must be correct in order to achieve better treatment results. In particular, patients should pay attention to self-adjustment methods.

1. Drug treatment. Currently, this needs to be done under the guidance of a professional doctor. Patients with depression who are treated with Western medicine will only achieve complete results if they also receive psychological treatment.

2Psychotherapy. The therapeutic results of psychological schools such as mind reshaping therapy, hypnotherapy, and Gestalt therapy all illustrate to us this fact: mental illness requires mental medicine to treat.

3. Physical therapy is also a common method in the clinical treatment of depression, but it is generally used for patients with mental illness and severe depression. Commonly used methods include electroconvulsive therapy, vagus nerve stimulation, repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS), light therapy, and minimally invasive surgery. However, at present, the application of physical therapy in the treatment of depression is still very controversial, and there is a high degree of relapse.

4. Self-adjustment. Individuals can also effectively alleviate or even eliminate depressive symptoms by adopting some practical self-adjustment methods, which mainly refers to mild or moderate depressive symptoms. For example, insist on exercising, meditating, reading books, and interpersonal communication.

Although depression generally has a good prognosis, people generally have doubts about whether depression is a mental illness. As a result, some patients with depression are influenced by traditional prejudices. For fear of being discriminated against, they cannot receive timely and systematic treatment, thus delaying the disease. Not only do they suffer physical and mental pain, but they are also at risk of self-harm and suicide. Therefore, if you have a tendency to depression, or have questions about psychological problems such as depression, it is best to go to a psychological clinic for consultation as soon as possible.