Yes we all live in a stressful world and we all go through depression in varying degrees and ways. With a gamut of antidepressants that have come into the market how safe do we feel reading antidepressant reviews and then deciding this is the one for me? Mental Health Professionals We need the guidance of our mental health professional before we pop those so called miracle depression curing pills into our mouths. Before that it is a good idea to read some facts about antidepressants and distinguish fact from fiction. It’s also just as important to know that natural options like pets for depression are effective as well. Momentarily it may seem that antidepressants are working. Yet we have to get to the root cause of the problem causing depression or we are going to suffer dangerous side effects that the very antidepressant effects bring in. Antidepressant Information As the name suggests antidepressants are drugs used to treat a person who is depressed besides something like support groups for depression. They work by altering a group of chemicals in the brain known as neurotransmitters like serotonin, norepinephrine, recognised as mood enhancers. Antidepressants benefit in short enhance mood and is a complementary treatment while the problem by itself has to be tackled by mental health therapy. Antidepressant Effects It takes about two to four weeks for the antidepressant effects to set in because increasing the neurotransmitters takes time. In cases of mild depression antidepressants’ benefit are negligible. However 60% of the ...

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