Depression Is Also Known As Mood Disorder

Depression is a mood disorder that affect your body and mind. It affect you as a whole. It is a brain disoder that causes children and adolescents to feel sad or irritable to be a long time. A person who is depressed has lost his interest in enjoying school and also do not enjoy with friends. Elderly people sufferuing from depression lost there interest in office. As adults, symptoms range from mild depression to severe and one person to another. Depression can last a long time and may have a cyclic evolution, with periods of illness followed by periods without symptoms.

Depression can lead to a variety of emotional and physical problems. You may have trouble doing normal day-to-day activities, and depression may make you feel as if life isn't worth living.More than just a bout of the blues, depression isn't a weakness, nor is it something that you can simply "snap out" of. Depression is a chronic illness that usually requires long-term treatment, like diabetes or high blood pressure. But don't get discouraged. Most people with depression feel better with medication, psychological counseling or other treatment.

The symptoms of depression includes
1) lack of joy or interest in activities that were joyful before.
2) feel of guilt of something without any substantial reason to feel so.
3) irritability.
4) slowness in interpreting sensorial stimuli.
5) slow physical reactions.
6) low mood level or sadness.
7) pessimism.
8) inferiority thoughts.
9) slowness in the thought process.
10) slowness of digestion or other internal physical processes, and symptoms caused by this slowness, for example inflated stomach, constipation or difficulties by urination.

Depression can be a mild disease that only causes some annoyance in the daily life, but can also get very serious and make a person totally unable to work and unable to participate in social life. By depression of some severity, there is also a greater risk of suicide.

Treatment of depressionr
Depression is very serious and common brain disorder as it affecting people of any age. If it is not treated on time it may lead to serious condition. For the treatment of depression there are varios medicine available in the medical store. Effexor XR medicine is one of the medicine that is approved by the Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of depression. Effexor XR is considered to be one of the best, most trusted and recommended by the doctor. The main ingredient of this medicine is Venlafaxine.

Effexor XR is used for the treatment of Depression and Anxiety. There are 2 chemicals in the human brain namely Serotonin and Norepinephrine . Venlafaxine XR helps by maintaining the balance between the two. The symptoms of Depression are appetite change, mood swings, feeling tired, loss of concentration, slow thinking process. The symptoms of Anxiety include tiredness, lack of concentration, feeling irritated, insomnia, tension in muscles.

Few precaution need to be taken before taking Effexor XR medicine to avoid any side effect
1) Do not use Effexor XR medicine if you are allergic to this medicine or to its ingredient.
2) People suffring from high blood pressure, any kidney, heart or liver related disease should not use this medicine withput consulting doctor.
3) Effexor XR increases the heart beat rate, hence, it should be taken with extreme caution by patients who have had a recent history of heart attacks.
4) Use of this medicine may lead to skin redness.

Before taking Effexor XR medicine you should inform your doctor if you are taking any prescription, non prescription and herbal medicine to avoid any drug interaction. You should take this medicine as prescribed by doctor for better result. Do not increase or decrease the dose of the medicine on your own as it may lead to serious side effect. Take effexor xr medicine with a full glass of water with or without food. The capsule should be taken as a whole and should not be broken or crushed before taking. Try to take this medicine at the same time each day. Keep all medicines away from the reach of the children and pet.