TABLETS OR PSYCHOTHERAPY?

At once it is necessary to make a reservation that it is possible to put so a question when it comes to mental disorders and psychological problems in which psychotherapy is shown. With problems related to the competence of psychiatry (psychotic states, schizophrenia, manic-depressive psychosis, etc.), without taking psychotropic drugs, alas, usually can not do.

Psychotherapy in general and psychoanalysis, in particular - drug-free types of treatment of mental disorders, but sometimes the use of light antidepressants and tranquilizers can be combined with psychotherapy.

If we talk about the medical treatment of mental disorders, it should be noted that the use of psychotropic drugs can only alleviate the current mental state, to improve the condition in the long run, drugs are not invented. Self-administration is not recommended, as much depends on the dosage and frequent side effects; also psychotropic drugs cause dependence quickly enough, to obtain an effect, more and more dosage is required, and if they fail, the mental state is aggravated.

In general, there are the following groups of the most commonly used psychotropic drugs:

- tranquilizers (soothing, with anxiety and insomnia) - glycine, phenazepam, tazepam, elenium (librium), relanium (seduxen), nosepam,

- Neuroleptics (for the relief of psychotic disorders, in small doses for neurotic) - sonapaks, etaperazine, chloroprotexen, aminazine, haloperidol, respolept (the last three are for psychotic disorders only),

- antidepressants (increasing mood) - with all neurotic depressions and anxiety - Prozac (fluoxetine, portal, profluzak), tsipramil; at dreary and asthenic depressions - pyrazidol, eglonil; with anxious depression - ludiomil, coaxil, zoloft,

- nootropics (to improve memory and attention) - nootropil, pyracetam, coguitum, centedrine,

- Atarapticks (anti-anxiety preparations of selective action (before flight, examination) - Xanax.

The most common side effects of psychotropic drugs - drowsiness, decreased potency and sexual desire, decreased appetite, nootropics stimulate anxiety. All psychotropic drugs are incompatible with alcohol.

The use of psychotropic drugs can be recognized as justified when, for example, it is a question of quickly arresting severe emotional experiences, depressive episodes (antidepressants of the last generation), restoring the sleep regimen (tranquilizers) - that is, to help a person return to a workable state. The course should not exceed one to two months. Thus, it is necessary to understand that antidepressants relieve the condition, and do not treat. Although the availability of drugs in the treatment scheme is sometimes justified. But it is one thing - to conduct a course of antidepressant medication, to start to function normally, to fix the improved condition and to search for the causes of the emergence of psychic problems with the help of psychotherapy, it's another thing to see an antidepressant as a panacea for mental problems and come into dependence on it.