Quitting depression medicine can be very difficult: research

Ground Report | New Delhi: depression medicine; Researchers in the UK have conducted research on patients taking depression medications for a long time. The research revealed that half of the patients who tried to quit the drug gradually, within a year, became victims of depression again. In contrast, those who did not stop taking the drug were about 40 percent more likely to develop depression again.

Patients in both groups were taking daily medication for depression and were feeling well after recovering from recent depression. All these patients were feeling healthy enough to consider quitting the drug.

There have been studies in the past that it is common for depression to return. An editorial published in the New England Journal of Medicine states that people who have had multiple depressions may be prescribed medicines to eat for life.

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There are options for counseling and behavioral therapy for patients who want to quit medications. Many studies have shown that this type of therapy along with medicine proves beneficial for many patients. But these therapies are very expensive and the lines are very long in countries where they are available under the public health system.

Lead researcher Gemma Lewis of University College London says that in Britain, only doctors of primary health centers are treating patients of depression.

Depression or depression is a disease related to mood. In this disease, the patient constantly feels depressed and hopeless and loses interest in normal activities. According to the World Health Organization, symptoms of this disease are found in about 5 percent of people worldwide.

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Lewis says that the recorded cases of depression in Britain are less than in the US, but due to different methods of estimating depression, it becomes difficult to compare patients of depression between different countries.

Most did not get depression again

The research involved 478 patients from four cities in England. Most of these adults were white women. All of them were taking common anti-depressant drugs called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. Medicines like Prozac and Zoloft fall in this category.

Half of the patients involved in the research were asked to gradually quit the drug, while the rest of the drugs were not changed. Researchers are not sure whether similar results would be available in patients taking other drugs. (depression medicine)

56 percent of the patients who gave up the drug became a victim of depression again during the research itself. Louis says that if those who do not give up medicines are mixed, then most people do not become victims of depression again.

"There are many people who would like to continue taking the drug and our research shows that it is the right decision for them," she says.

Dr. Jeffrey Jackson of Milwaukee Veterans Affairs Medical Center, who wrote the editorial, described the results of this research as important but disappointing. He said it is possible for some people to quit the drug.

He wrote, "For those who have had a single depression, especially because of a life event, I encourage them to reduce the medication after six months of treatment."

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