Posted by noa on October 8, 2000, at 9:41:37
In reply to Re: Cures for Depression? » LizG, posted by shellie on October 7, 2000, at 19:26:27
Depression comes in many varieties of intensity, chronicity, recurrence or lack thereof, rate of onset, connection to external or internal triggers, heredity factors, etc., so, it would be hard, IMHO, to make a single statement to address all varieties.
There is so much mutual influence between the brain and experience that it is often hard to separate a "cause" perse, and so too, for many people, some combo of medicine and therapy is helpful.. For some people, therapy and other strategies can work without meds. For others, therapy just doesn't get anywhere unless meds are used, still others are helped by meds, but therapy enhances their progress, and for others, meds work alone (although IMHO, it is likely that a person who has been struggling with any kind of recurrent or chronic form of depression would benefit from some therapy to help with the secondary effects of living with this disease).
In short, no easy answers.
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