Anxiety & Depression Treatment: Nowadays, problems related to mental health are increasing rapidly. Most people keep ignoring these problems, but some people are becoming serious about mental health. As much as awareness regarding mental health has increased, misconceptions related to its medicines have also increased. According to health experts, anxiety and depression are affecting people the most at this time. These are treated with medicines. It is often believed that by taking medicines for anxiety and depression, people become addicted to them or the body becomes dependent on these medicines. However, doctors reject all these things and call them effective and safe in the treatment of mental diseases.

Dr. Prerna Kukreti, professor and senior psychiatrist at Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi, told News18. There are many types of mental diseases and different medicines are used in their treatment. Medicines for depression and anxiety take some time to have an effect and to provide quick relief from the symptoms, patients are initially given medicines like benzodiazepines. These medicines show quick effect and patients get relief. However, these medicines are given for a short period and then it is advised to take safer medicines. Many times people keep taking medicines like benzodiazepines voluntarily or use them wrongly, due to which their brain can become dependent on them. If these medicines are used correctly and for a short period of time, they do not cause any harm.

Doctor Kukreti said that medicines for anxiety and depression are very safe and there is no risk of addiction from them. It is just an illusion among the people that taking these medicines can make them addicted. Just as people have to take medicines to control diabetes, similarly for some patients, treatment takes a long time and they have to take these medicines for a long time. It is wrong to consider it as dependency or addiction. Problems with these medicines begin when patients increase the dosage of these medicines on their own without doctor’s supervision or keep taking them on their own for months. If any medicine is taken wrongly, its side effects will definitely be seen. Therefore, it is important to be careful about medicines.

According to experts, sometimes patients suddenly stop medicines on their own free will, after which they feel symptoms like nervousness, sweating or dizziness. This is called antidepressant discontinuation syndrome. These medicines cause changes in brain function, so they should not be stopped suddenly. When they are stopped suddenly, it takes time for the brain to adjust. People often consider it as withdrawal and consider it an addiction. Psychiatrists always recommend that medicines should never be stopped suddenly, rather their dosage should be reduced gradually. If you take proper treatment, then neither any medicine will cause addiction nor will there be any harm to the body.