How to Treat Depression With ****

**** (paroxetine) is one of the most commonly prescribed antidepressants used to treat clinical depression, also known as major-depressive order. By consulting with your physician or mental-health professional, and carefully noting the potential side effects, you will be able to determine whether **** is the right way to treat your depression.

Things You'll Need

• Physician
• Paxil

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Instructions

Treat Your Depression With Paxil

• 1

  Determine whether you are experiencing symptoms of clinical depression, as opposed to just feeling sad occasionally. Clinical depression is usually marked by overwhelming feelings of sadness or despair that last for 2 weeks or more. These symptoms must be severe enough to affect your everyday life and make it difficult or impossible for you to be productive.

• 2

  Schedule an evaluation appointment with your physician or mental-health professional to find out whether you are suffering from a major-depressive disorder. Along with **** or other antidepressant medications, a program of psychotherapy or behavioral therapy may be prescribed in order to get to the root of your depression and eliminate the causes.

• 3

  Beware of the potential side effects of ****, which are fairly typical for an antidepressant. These side effects include nausea, weight loss or weight gain, dry mouth, insomnia, sexual dysfunction or loss of sex drive, constipation and diarrhea. Many of these side effects only appear during the first few weeks of taking ****, disappearing as your body adjusts to the medication.

• 4

  Set a time line with your doctor for taking **** to treat your depression. Generally, the symptoms of a major-depressive disorder will improve in the first few days of taking ****. Your health-care professional may decide to take you off of **** after just a few weeks, depending upon the progress you make during your psychotherapy or behavioral-therapy sessions.

• 5

  Reduce or discontinue the use of **** to treat depression only under the close supervision of your doctor or health-care professional, since withdrawal symptoms from **** are some of the most severe of all antidepressants. These withdrawal symptoms may include brain "zaps" (sensations of electrical shocks in the head or brain), nausea, nightmares and suicidal feelings or thoughts. These symptoms may last anywhere from 24 hours to a full week after discontinuing ****.