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Is anxiety and depression a medical condition requiring medication, doctors and drugs?

April 26, 2017anxiety condition depression doctors drugs medical medication requiring

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Is anxiety and depression a medical condition requiring medication, doctors and drugs?

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I do not believe depression is completely a medical condition. Depression is only 20% biological. Healthy brain chemistry is the result of a healthy diet, lifestyle, work or exercise regime, and loving supportive relationships. Love and support in your relationships also helps produce serotonin (brain chemical of satisfaction, comfort and relaxation) creating and maintaining healthy brain chemistry. Exercise also balances brain chemistry through the production of endorphins, and together with correct diet the production of dopamine (brain chemical of clarity, attention, interest and motivation). Doctors are right that depression is an imbalance of brain chemistry, but the causes of this are variable and changeable environmental variables. So treating someone with antidepressant medication is ignoring the real issues. Do antidepressant medications really work, such as Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRI’s) like Paroxetine (Paxil), Sertraline (Zoloft) and Fluoxetine (Prozac)? P