Depression Rehab Oil City PA

The cause of depression is thought to be due to chemical imbalances in the brain. Contemporary scientists have come up with a variety of medications to correct those imbalances. Doctors select antidepressants based on their patient’s symptoms but there’s no one magic pill or one magic protocol. The drug side effects differ, as do their effectiveness.

Family Servs and Childrens Aid Society
(814) 677-4005
716 East 2nd Street
Oil City, PA
Services Provided
Substance abuse
Types of Care
Outpatient
Special Programs/Groups
DUI/DWI offenders, Criminal justice clients

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Family Services and
(814) 432-3466
1243 Liberty Street
Franklin, PA
Services Provided
Substance abuse
Types of Care
Outpatient
Special Programs/Groups
Men, DUI/DWI offenders, Criminal justice clients

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Deerfield Centers for Addictions Trt
(814) 827-3467
228 East Central Avenue
Titusville, PA
Services Provided
Substance abuse
Types of Care
Outpatient

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Home Nursing Agency Community Services
(814) 943-0414x3040
500 East Chestnut Avenue
Altoona, PA
Hotline
(814) 889-2141
Services Provided
Substance abuse
Types of Care
Outpatient, Partial hospitalization/day treatment
Special Programs/Groups
Adolescents, Persons with co-occurring mental and substance abuse disorders, DUI/DWI offenders, Criminal justice clients
Language Services
ASL or other assistance for hearing impaired

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Yorktowne Psychological Services
(717) 843-4357
220 East King Street
York, PA
Services Provided
Substance abuse
Types of Care
Outpatient

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Turning Point
(814) 437-1750
4849 U.S. 322
Franklin, PA
Services Provided
Substance abuse , Detoxification, Buprenorphine Services
Types of Care
Residential short-term treatment (30 days or less), Residential long-term treatment (more than 30 days), Outpatient, Partial hospitalization/day treatment
Special Programs/Groups
Women, Men
Language Services
ASL or other assistance for hearing impaired

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Deerfield Center For Addictions Trt
(888) 893-3228
111 Bridge Street
Tionesta, PA
Services Provided
Substance abuse
Types of Care
Outpatient

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Mazzitti and Sullivan Inc
(717) 362-3321
3207 North Front Street
Harrisburg, PA
Services Provided
Substance abuse
Types of Care
Outpatient
Special Programs/Groups
Adolescents

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Progressive Medical Specialists Inc
(412) 391-6384
2900 Smallman Street
Pittsburgh, PA
Services Provided
Substance abuse , Methadone Maintenance, Methadone Detoxification
Types of Care
Outpatient
Special Programs/Groups
Persons with HIV/AIDS, Seniors/older adults, Pregnant/postpartum women, Women, Men

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Lebanon Treatment Center
(717) 273-8000
3030 Chestnut Street
Lebanon, PA
Hotline
(717) 644-1127
Services Provided
Substance abuse , Methadone Maintenance
Types of Care
Outpatient
Special Programs/Groups
Persons with co-occurring mental and substance abuse disorders, Pregnant/postpartum women, Women, Men
Language Services
Spanish

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Depression Rehab

We know when we’re sad. We don’t need the dictionary definition of depression, “a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity” to explain the condition. But when it is truly an illness, not just a passing emotion, doctors do a complete physiological evaluation to determine the extent of the problem, whether it is a mild case of depression or an extreme condition that would require depression rehabilitation.

We are fortunate in this century, that getting help for depression no longer means getting shock treatments or a frontal lobotomy. The father of the lobotomy “Walter Freeman believed lobotomies worked because the procedure severed connections between the frontal lobes of the brain and the thalamus, thought to be the seat of human emotion, which the mentally ill apparently had in overabundance. ”

Success with Depression Rehab

Luckily, that treatment is now recognized to be the barbaric procedure it is, and doctors have turned to actual science for answers.

Nowadays the cause of depression is thought to be due to chemical imbalances in the brain. Contemporary scientists have come up with a variety of medications to correct those imbalances. Doctors select antidepressants based on their patient’s symptoms but there’s no one magic pill or one magic protocol. The drug side effects differ, as do their effectiveness. Dosages and prescriptions are adjusted over time as doc...

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