Zoloft For Depression Depression (major depressive disorder) is a common and serious medical illness that negatively affects person’s thoughts, behaviour, tendencies, feelings, and sense of well-being. Symptoms must last at least two weeks for a diagnosis of depression. Depression affects 20 million Americans, an estimated one in 15 adults (6.7%) in any given year. And one in six people (16.6%) will experience depression at some time in their life ( (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: DSM-5, 2013). Zoloft (Sertraline) is used to treat depression, panic attacks, obsessive compulsive disorder, social anxiety disorder (social phobia), and severe form of premenstrual syndrome (Zoloft, 2009). Zoloft can improve the patient’s mood, sleep, appetite and energy level and help restore pleasure in activities once enjoyed and interest in daily living. It can decrease feeling …show more content…
By exploring what cause depression and why people feel the way they think, which the true cause still has not discovered yet. Deacon & Baird (2009) has illustrate the popular “chemical imbalance” explanation of depression-what happen in people brain, when they feel sad or depressed. In America, with an average 16.6% life time prevalence (Kessler, Berglund, Demler, Jin, & Walters, 2005), research and treatment in depression is one of the most focus topic. The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of a chemical imbalance causal explanation for depression on perceptions or credibility, stigma, prognosis, and the effectiveness of different treatment. In the experiment, participants were asked to imagine they were depressed and search treatment from a doctor who diagnosed them with major depressive disorder and provided a specific explanation for their symptoms, participants then ask to rate the credibility of the explanations (both chemical and biopsychosocial), stigma of the disorder, and expected