Depression Tips

Whenever there is a dilemma about a fact, we, the medical science people conduct a research, and that helps in a way to understand the trends and the curves that a particular dilemma can take. Recently there has been a volunteered debate on the effects of the so called antidepressants on the children. There was a chaos around the medical world about the fact, and hence all it needed was one more research. Here are the results.

In a recent study funded by the National Institute of Mental Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have claimed that children and adolescents who’re on anti-depressants are infact, at a lower risk of having suicidal tendencies or unusual changes in behavior, this comes as a relief for those guardians who risk their child by staying away from home for long and then these children become a permanent customers of these drugs.

But, this apparently comes as a contradiction to the previous findings of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that led to a special product labeling change (boxed warnings) for children and adolescents, according to which the antidepressants are nothing but a slow killer as, it breeds in a feeling a self destruction or say creep suicidal tendencies in the children of tender age.

In their report, which is a compilation of an analysis done on 5,310 children and adolescents from 27 separate studies, the researchers have concluded that for every 100 kids treated with antidepressants; only about one child tends to suffer from suicidal tendencies. No suicides have been reported so far among children and teenagers who’re on notable drugs like Celexa, Effexor, Lexapro, Paxil, Prozac, Remeron, Serzone and Zoloft.

Dr. David Brent from the Univ. of Pittsburgh School of Medicine added -
“The medications are safe and effective and should be considered as an important part of treatment. The benefits seem favorable compared to the small risk of suicidal thoughts and behavior.”

However, the constant monitoring of patients who’re on antidepressants by their doctors has still not been ruled out. Thus it is not a very big deal that suicidal tendencies are not getting breaded in, but the crucial point is why these little kids have to depend on drugs such as antidepressants. Can u imagine, a kid actually being depressed because of problems in his or her home, very rarely, then why are they getting depressed.

Well, the major reason for these depressed children is child molestation and this is an area where we have to look to secure our future, else the day is not far, when every mother would be packing a set of antidepressants with the school lunch box of her kids. These children need to be safeguarded against such inhuman acts as they can affect a child’s whole nervous system and then it becomes really difficult to forget such experiences.

Thus instead of researching the effects of drugs on depressed children, why don’t we research the ugly reasons that led to all these. Once we are able to attack the root, there are larger possibilities of fighting this deadly disease.