Setting goals for treatment helps you judge if it is successful. The overall goals for depression therapy are:
- reduce or eliminate symptoms
- stop symptoms from getting in the way of normal activities
- keep symptoms from getting in the way of work or school
- prevent episodes of depression from recurring
- have as few side effects from treatment as possible
- adopt healthy lifestyle changes to help prevent depression from recurring
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