Life often becomes very difficult when you get old. You cannot run or walk fast; you stay tired more often; you experience hearing troubles; you are likely to have diabetes, high blood pressure; heart, kidney, and liver disorders; and mostly old aged victims of depression are diagnosed with vascular depression. Vascular depression is the depression associated with the blood vessels in your body. What happens is that your blood vessels start thickening when you start aging. This thickening of your blood vessels causes hindrances in the blood circulation in your body. Therefore, when the blood flowing to your brain decreases, you suffer from headaches, dizziness, and loss of concentration. In addition, this is known as vascular depression unhappiness. The best or most effective treatment for this depression is yet to be discovered but there are some vascular depression relief methods that can help in lowering down the severity of this depression. SSRI (serotonin specific reuptake inhibitor or selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor) antidepressants are usually given to the old aged sufferers of depression. Studies have shown that those who take these antidepressants are better able to cope up with their depression as compared to people who do not use them. Elderly people who use SSRI antipdepressant like fluoxetine have benefitted from it a lot. Their anxiety level reduced to a great extent and their depression problems improved too. Tranascranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) can also help in giving vascular depression relief to the elderly. But people need to take this treatment repeatedly ...

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