| Note |
Help improve your depressed patients' ability to cope. Coping with Depression: The ability to cope with depressive illness, for the patient and to some degree for the physician, largely depends on hope - a crutch that is usually lacking in the depressed patient. To the depressed patient all the good things of life are bleak, black, or unattainable; all that is bad has been happening or will happen. Helping such a patient to cope with life again, to overcome the incapacitating moods, outlooks, and fears which characterize depression, can be a most rewarding experience for the physician. Although Norpramin (desipramine hydrochloride) is relatively rapid-acting, the patient should be told that he will not feel better immediately but that he will gradually become his old self again. A minor tranquilizer in appropriate dosage may be used with Norpramin temporarily if anxiety due to depression is present; a phenothiazine may be used similarly if agitation is severe. Frequently, Norpramin and your own understanding of the patient are all that is necessary. Norpramin (desipramine hydrochloride) helps the depressed cope with life again. |
