Depression is something that many Americans unfortunately have. Luckily there are a lot of treatments that help some through depression. There are medication, therapy and meditations that are used to help treat someone with depression. Unfortunately there are a few people with depression that none of the current treatments work for them.
Rectly the Los Angeles Times put out an article about people with depression that cannot get cured thought he current treatments. They were informing the public about a few new treatments that are just starting to emerge to help people with depression.
I thought it was very interesting to hear what treatments where just coming out or currently under study.
Vortioxetine- Is a new drug that was recently approved. It is known to help depression and even boost the person's memory.
Ketamine- This drug is not approved to help depression. Although it has helped with people who do not respond to antidepressant. It is also really good in helping those with suicidal thoughts.
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation- This is something to consider if drugs do not work. They attach electromagnetic coil to a person's scalp. They then send magnetic impulses to specific parts of the brain knows to trigger depression. The impulses are know to help revert it.
Cranial Electrotherapy Stimulation- Is a regular thing that you can buy and use at home. You place it on your head and it sends electronic impulses to the brain. It is known to help smaller problems like insomnia but it can also help with depression.
Deep Brain Stimulation- This is something new that is till being tested. They place a small neurostimulator into the brain- similar to a pacemaker. It is known to help with many problems.
Hopefully these new treatments will help more people with depression. Do you think these new treatments will work? Or is some depression a lost case and nothing can be done?
Look out for these names, one of them might be the #1 breakthrough with helping cure depression.
While it's nice to think that one of these treatments could be "the one", it's very hard to tell until actual results start coming in. Personally, the cranial electrotherapy one just sounds weird, but if it works for some people, that's good enough for me. It sounds like the first one, vortioxetine, might be the best one so far, but again, results should be collected and organized before drawing any real conclusions.
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