Psychotherapy is the best way to treat the illness called depression. There are many treatments that are used to treat depression, but each cure has different effects and outcomes on the person suffering. Two of the most well-known types of treatment for depression are being put on medications or hospitalization in an institution. In my opinion, what these psychiatrists, scientists and therapists do not understand is that the people who suffer from this sickness should be treated like a normal human being. Someone suffering from depression has many different thoughts running through their mind. The last thing they need is the feeling of other people thinking you’re crazy. The best way to treat depression is by psychotherapy, which is also known as “verbal communication”.
According to the Merck Manual Home Edition, the disorder “depression” is a feeling of sadness intense enough to interfere with functioning. In about 400 B.C., Greek physician Hippocrates began to notice, what we call today, depression and thought that this was the effect of their occupations or drugs. During the Middle Ages, medieval Europeans identified those with mental illnesses and going insane as if they were being controlled by demons. Not only were they labeled as evil and demonic, but they were considered witches. However, in about the 1600’s, Europeans began to isolate those who were mentally ill and insane. To be kept away from rational people in that time, they would be chained to walls and kept in dungeons. Up until the early 1900’s, depression and different types of its possible treatments were being more well-known and studied. Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung developed the theory that “talking cures” was the main treatment for the illness, which lead to psychotherapy being the best treatment for depression.
“Psychotherapy is a method of verbal communication used to help a person find relief from emotional pain. It is based on theories and techniques of psychoanalysis”.(Gale) The...