How should anxiety and depression be treated?

Depression and anxiety can be improved by medication and psychotherapy.

At present, there are no two terms of depression and anxiety in medicine, which should refer to the anxiety symptoms of depression. The following methods can be used for treatment:

1. Drug treatment: including western medicine treatment and Chinese medicine treatment. Western medicine treatment (such as serotonin reuptake inhibitors: citalopram, venlafaxine, etc. ) can relieve symptoms in a short time, but it can't fundamentally eliminate the focus, and it is easy to delay repeatedly. Traditional Chinese medicine can also be used as an auxiliary treatment for depression and anxiety, which has a certain clinical effect.

2. Psychotherapy: including supportive psychotherapy and behavioral therapy, to alleviate or alleviate the symptoms of depression and anxiety.

(1) Supportive psychotherapy: through listening, comforting, explaining, guiding and encouraging, help patients correctly understand and treat their own diseases, so that patients can actively cooperate with the treatment.

(2) Behavioral therapy: By helping patients to understand and correct their false beliefs, they can relieve emotional stress, relieve symptoms, improve patients' coping ability, and finally reduce the recurrence rate of diseases.