Getting Help for Depression

Getting Help for Depression – Where do you get help for your depression? HealthyPlace.com Expert Depression Patient and author, Julie Fast, has 3 steps to get the correct help for depression.

Health roundup: Talk helps when depression meds fail

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Talk therapy: Depression is a stubborn illness, but when a few months of medication don't work, adding talk therapy may help, a new study shows. Nearly half of depressed patients who added sessions of so-called cognitive behavioral therapy saw …
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CBT Helps Relieve Depression When Medication Fails

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CBT, a combination of cognitive and behavioral therapy, is a way of helping people with depression change the way they think, which helps improve how they feel and change what they do, researchers said. A research team led by Nicola Wiles, Ph.D., from …
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Study: Obesity Gene May Help Prevent Depression

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… which is a major contributor to obesity, is associated with a decreased risk of depression. Think of it as a kind of “happy gene.” Perhaps more significantly though, the discovery of the “obese but happy” gene helps explains what makes some people …
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