Depression is a common complaint given our hectic life styles, individualistic thinking, rising competition, weak family and social bonds, junk food diets and other stressful factors. Although both men and women suffer from depressive and anxiety disorders, the incidence of anxiety and panic attacks is more common among women than men. Similarly, the elderly due to various physiological, mental and environmental factors are more likely to suffer from depression than younger adults.
Depression is not just a state of mind but a medical condition arising out of an imbalance or lack of certain essential brain chemicals like dopamine, serotonin etc. in the brain. Thus, just like other mental decline disorders and diseases such as dementia, alzhiemer’s disease, parkinson’s disease etc., depression too needs treatment with the use of certain mind power drugs or supplement known as nootropic drugs other than or in combination with regular anti depressants.