Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Works Where Antidepressants Alone Don't – Study

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Works Where Antidepressants Alone Don't – Study

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Antidepressants are the most widely used treatment for people with moderate to severe depression but up to two thirds of people with depression don't respond fully to antidepressants. A new paper in The Lancet says cognitive behavioral therapy reduces …
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Severity, Duration of Teen Depression Help Predict Remission

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Severity, Duration of Teen Depression Help Predict Remission In teens with depression, there are two factors that seem to predict whether the symptoms will go away without treatment: the severity of the depression and whether it persisted for at least …
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Bereavement Does Not Immunize the Grieving Person Against Major Depression

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Dr. Widera is quite right: ordinary grief is not an illness, has adaptive value, and does not require professional treatment. But grieving persons are not immune to major depressive disorder (MDD), and, indeed, bereavement is a common trigger for MDD.
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Possible help for severe depression – This mental exercise is meant to disconnect you from old guilt you laid on yourself after the death of a person or animal you were very attached to. Every person I work with having depression I do this type of disconnect therapy. They often say afterwards, “I feel lighter.” It takes about 10 seconds of actual disconnect therapy.