The Way to Treat Mental Disease: Medication, Counseling or Both

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can be treated by either medication or counseling. However, using only one of the treatments is not enough or overwhelmed in many cases. Therefore, you should use an appropriate combination of these two methods to have the best result.

If you only depend on medicine to treat ADHD or PTSD, the psychotropic drugs that you are using, in most cases, are being overprescribed. Doctors usually overuse, maybe even misuse, drugs that can cause many unwanted effects for patients' later lives. They include Prozac, a drug to relieve severe depression. Even though taking medicine can alleviate both metal pain and physical pain right away, your health condition in the future must not be ignored. "From 1987 to 1996, the proportion of young patients treated with psychotropic drugs in three large healthcare programs doubled, and in some cases, more than tripled. The study covered nine classes of medication and nearly 900,000 young people." ("Chemical Kids" by Peter Spotts). According to the report, you are very likely to be overdosed and overwhelmed with drugs by using medication without counseling.

Nevertheless, what if you choose counseling to duel with either ADHD or PTSD? In many case, counseling is not strong enough to make patients forget about their horrible experience that would haunt them the rest of their lives. Imagine that you have just murdered a person only by accident. No matter how the counselor try to convince that you never did kill that person on purpose, your dream would be visited by the murdered person seeking for revenge in a form of spirit or ghost. Your conscience will not leave you alone. In that case, taking a pill to make you sleep or to calm you down would be a better option. Counseling is not an adequate way to treat severe mental problem like ADHD or PTSD.

In order to have the best result in treatment of ADHD or PTSD, the combination of medication and counseling should be used. That can prevent drugs from being overprescribed and strengthen the effects of counseling. You can go counseling to ease your pain a little bit, and take medicine to ease a little bit more. In my experience, that will not make you tired of either medication or counseling. However, you must mix counseling and medication in an appropriate way to give out the most satisfactory result. The combination will surpass all other methods in quality.

The treatment for ADHD and PTSD is not easy to be done. Using only medication will cause overdosed. On the other hand, using only counseling will not be good enough to alleviate patients' pain. Therefore, the combination of two methods would be the best way to give out the best result.