Journal of Psychiatry

Why Patients With Depression Do Not Improve Their Symptoms When Using Anti Depressant Medications?

International Conference and Expo on Mental health and Care

July 27, 2022 | Webinar

Huang Wei Ling

Medical Acupuncture and Pain Management Clinic, Brazil

Keynote: J Psychiatry

Abstract:

Statement of the Problem: Depression is considered a mood disorder characterized by a persistent feeling of loss of interest and sadness. In TCM, vital energy deficiency is the cause of depression caused by dysfunction of systems in the body such as deficiencies in the Blood, Qi, Yin, and Yang energy, accumulation of Phlegm, and Dampness. The principle of the treatment is to strengthen the vital energy, stimulate the Blood circulation, take out the Heat that is causing inflammation, and removing Phlegm and Dampness. Purpose: To address that depression has energy deficiencies as the cause, diagnosed and confirmed by the chakras energies centers measurement and could worse even more when antidepressant medications are used, in this case in the treatment of depression-like symptoms patients. Methods: trought two cases reports, the first was a 22 years old men with a dignosis of depression since 2019, and was using antidepressant medications without any improvement. The second was a 80 years old woman, suffering from late-life depression since her 60’s, and using antidepressant medication since then. Both patients were not able to be functional (inability to leave the house, unable to cook for herself, extreme fatigue and with low selfesteem). The patient complained that her symptoms were not improving, even with the increase of the dosage of the antidepressant drugs. Chinese dietary counseling, acupuncture and moxibustion were started in both patients. They also performed measurements of the chakras’ energies centers, considering a scale of 1 to 8, 1 being the minimum and 8 the normal level, six of her seven chakras were measured in 1. To replenish the energy of the chakras’ energy centers, she also used crystal-based medication and homeopathy based on the Constitutional Homeopathy of the Five Elements based on Traditional Chinese Medicine. She was oriented to gradually withdraw the antidepressant medication, always associating the acupuncture sessions to reduce withdrawal symptoms. Results: Both patients started to feel more energized, and happier, and recovered the capacity of performing their daily activities very quickly since the first acupuncture session. The skin wrinkles of the second case report were appearing less too. Conclusion: Depression has an energy deficiency as the root. It is important to treat these deficiencies to improve the patients’ symptoms and their quality of life. The use of antidepressant medication, in this case, can worsen the vital energy, according to Arndt Shultz Law, maintaining or worsening the energy deficiencies that were causing the depression symptoms.

Biography :

Huang Wei Ling, born in Taiwan, raised and graduated in medicine in Brazil, specialist in infectious and parasitic diseases, a General Practitioner and Parenteral and Enteral Medical Nutrition Therapist. Once in charge of the Hospital Infection Control Service of the City of Franca’s General Hospital, she was responsible for the control of all prescribed antimicrobial medication and received an award for the best paper presented at the Brazilian Hospital Infection Control Congress in 1998. Since 1997, she works with the approach and treatment of all chronic diseases in a holistic way, with treatment guided through the teachings of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Hippocrates. Researcher in the University of São Paulo, in the Ophthalmology department from 2012 to 2013.Author of the theory Constitutional Homeopathy of the Five Elements Based on Traditional Chinese Medicine.