depressant Therapy
The Impact of Ethnicity on Anti-depressant Therapy
The Case: The man whose antidepressant stopped working.
Gathering information on physical assessment is essential in the management and treatment of the patient’s conditions like depression. The participation of a family is vital in the overall treatment of a person who has a mental disorder.
The three questions necessary to ask the patient with depression are: “How do you feel about being retired?” ; “Can you tell me about your family?”; and “ Are you having thoughts of harming yourself?” The first question will explore the extent of financial demand on the patient and will assess the feeling of guilt regarding financial constraints related to his chronic disease. The importance of financial challenge appeared as the primary stressor on the study on chronic disease and depression (Chan & Corvin, 2016). The second question determines how family relations affect the patient’s condition, whether he has a sound support system. The third question explores the patient’s plan for himself.
The patient’s wife in the scenario is his support person. Family and social interactions appeared crucial to coping strategy even without resolution on the problem (Chan & Corvin, 2016). The following questions are necessary to determine how supportive is the patient’s wife: “Do you keep track of your husband’s medication regimen?” ; “ What are the things that you and your husband like to do?”; and “How do you feel about your husband’s illness?”
The first question determines the wife’s involvement in patient care and whether the patient is compliant with his schedules of medication. The second question explore the things that both patient and wife enjoy. The third question assesses how the patient’s wife handles his husband’s illness. The wife can be a husband’s caregiver, and such a job involves managing the patient’s treatment, side effects, and symptoms, which providing such care can be emotionally difficult (Nik Jaafar et al., 2014). Greater caregiver burden is associated with older adults with long-standing depressive manifestations (Marshe et al., 2017).
