How fast can one get treatment for depression?
I’m going to see a psychiatrist with in the next few weeks. I’ve had depression for a few years now and but I’ve never been proffesionally diagnosed. How long does it take for the doctors to diagnose you and decided what treatment is best? What if they decided I need medication?How long does the actual process, as far as meeting with the doctor for evaluation take? And how long do I have to wait for results?
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March 25th, 2010 at 1:44 pm
If you are clinically depressed, it is a life long condition which regular therapy and medication can treat. It will take time for a doctor to determine what drugs and the dosage to prescribe - and in some cases, they will need to change it if the desired affects are not being reached. It is a process which can take weeks for some, months for others. Everyone reacts differently.
March 25th, 2010 at 1:44 pm
The doctor will more than likely diagnosis you the same day. He will also more than like prescribe medication for you that same day. The entire appointment will last about an hour.
Some people feel the effects of medication right away but, it takes about 6 weeks to reach a therapeutic level. Don’t be surprised if the first one doesn’t work, it happens once in awhile.
One thing I would do before you meet with the psychiatrist is see your regular doctor and have some blood work done. There are times when a thyroid problem can be the cause of your depression.
some psychiatrists also like to have blood work done, so you will already have that out of the way.
March 25th, 2010 at 1:44 pm
I don’t think doctors like to diagnose that often, so it might be quite hard to get a diagnosis. They are careful about this because people don’t like to be labelled or put into boxes.
A friend of mine had been depressed for some time, she went to the doctors, spent about half an hour chatting with the doctor and filling out a form (how do you feel today? 1 = very happy 10 = very depressed, that sort of thing,) and there and then he prescribed her with a six month course of citalopram, a common antidepressant.
If you have never been on any sort of medication before for your depression, I don’t think you will get diagnosed yet.
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