What Can One Do For Anxiety And Depression?

Posted on Thu, 6 Apr 2017

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Question : what can you do for depression

Answered by Dr. Ivo Ditah (1 hour later)

Brief Answer:
Medications can help. Fluoxetin is a good drug!

Detailed Answer:

Hi,

Before actually concluding, I will like to see that for real this is depression and no other problem. This is because a disease condition such as hypothyroidism can mimic depression.

We therefore need to be absolutely sure that there are no other explanations but depression. Also, contributing factors like stress at work, disappointment in a relationship, loss of a dear one, etc., must be investigated and managed with non drug measures.

If these fail, then medications such as Fluoxetine can be used to address this.

I hope this helps. I wish you well.

Regards,
Dr. Ivo Ditah
Internal Medicine Specialist

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar