Psychosomatic Medicine

             I am medical psychiatrist in Goiânia.  

             In the day in that write this more text my patient, depressed, it stopped of taking the antidepressive medication  for me prescribed.        

             That is an irritating and dangerous routine in the life of who treat with disturbances in this country.   

             It is necessary that those people know that depression is a disease and that the suppression of the treatment is a great life risk for the patient. 

             Why did with the medication stop? A “colleague” of another specialty it ordered him to stop, therefore that was “drug” and  could only do badly it.   

             They are always like this, with small and brilliant variations, the wise advices that the psychotropic users not receive at the medical clinics psychiatric of this immense Brazil:  

             “Stop with that that will kill you”; “You will be crazy, taking that drug”; “it will be dependent”; “he/she doesn't need that, it is alone to have willpower.”  

             The orientation is as wiser as adult it is the desinformation of the consultor. 

             The Tragic of that habit is that is practiced by medical professionals that should always have as goal the patient's health.  

             But those doctors are not alone.  Relatives, friends, neighbors, onlookers, acquaintances and passer-bies also collaborate for the suffering of the depressed.   

             Depression is a disease. It has good cure chance, but it is a disease.  It is not a moral weakness. It is not an debility of the character.  It is not a fantasy which one can just leave “lifting the head” and forgetting the problem. 

             The cruellest facet of the situation is that the depressed feels satiny psychologically, with the low self-esteem, with ideas of inability, fatality and death.   

             In the fund of the well, finally.  In an intense suffering, with ideas of blame , the patient is motivated to remove the medication.  

             What happens to proceed it is not necessary to be any genius to notice.               The depressed thinks, he/she/it doesn't get to give bill of leaving of that situation the blame it belongs to him, that is a weak one and perhaps don't deserve nor to live. 

             The suicide rate among the depressed ones is plenty high so that he/she doesn't take care with more affection and professionalism of the subject.   

             The mental upset are today in the whole world an important subject of public health.   

             The governments of the developed countries invest loud in researches for it lessens the problem, that doesn't choose races nor classes and it is transferred irresponsibly for the customers that are in the psychiatry