Posted by stjames on October 9, 2000, at 1:11:38
In reply to Re: Cures for Depression?, posted by noa on October 8, 2000, at 9:41:37
Depression is a big term with many causes. There is situational and biochemical depression. We know that those with situational depression left untreated will also become biochemically depressed. There is a cure for situational depression (situational depression=ones situation is causing the depression) in thearpy. Some folks, like me, just have biochemical depression.
All the pdoc's I have seen do ask questions to discover if depression has it's roots in behavior or past experiences. I did 6 months of psycothearpy which helped with many things but did nothing for my depression. Medical problems take a medical treatment. I think everyone should do some thearpy and studies show the combo of meds and thearpy more effective the either one alone.It is also imoportant to remember pdoc's are medical docs, there is too much study involved in getting an MD and then a specality to study human behavior in depth like a thearpist.
james
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