Volume 6 Issue 5 May 2016
❌Talking it out is enough to treat depression
✅Talking helps but proper psychotherapy, medications, and relaxation exercises are important in treatment of depression
❌Depression is just a result of going through a tough time
✅Though stress has important role in causation of depression, but most of cases have role of biological, psychological and social factors
❌Depressive disorder do not present with symptom of pain
✅Depression usually present with emotional symptoms as well as physical symptoms like pain, exhaustion, muscle ache, and loss of weight and appetite
❌Only women can develop depression
✅Depression can also effect men as well as women though it is more common in women
Swapnil Tripathi, final year, MBBS student, AIIMS, Jodhpur, Rajasthan
