Antidepressant medications can be helpful for reducing depression symptoms in some people, especially in people with severe depression. Psychotherapy is also an effective treatment, either alone or in combination with medications.
dioxin. a highly toxic and teratogenic chlorinated hydrocarbon that is a trace contaminant in the herbicide 2,4,5-T. Acute poisoning causes vomiting, abortion, anestrus. Chronic poisoning causes liver damage, especially in dogs. Congenital defects caused include cranio-facial deformity and anasarca.
Dioxin is an organochlorine, or a man-made chemical which has chlorine bound to organic compounds. Organochlorines are foreign to the biology of life. They are not created naturally in the bodies of humans or other terrestrial animals. This is because living tissue must be able to easily break down or biodegrade.