Posted by Estella on August 6, 2006, at 0:19:29
In reply to Re: what's wrong with this picture » Estella, posted by SLS on August 5, 2006, at 10:34:32
> > > If I take a sledge hammer and whack you over your right thumb with it, will you not focus your attention on it until it stops hurting?
> > not if i give you morphene first...
> Preemptive antidepressant treatment?So you think it is preemptive pain treatment? Yeah, I guess that is what it is typically taken to be. Is there an analogy for depression?
Perhaps...
Medication can help prevent relapse...
Therapy can help prevent relapse...Things are interconnected.
The question is a little like 'did the chicken or the egg come first'. Mind / Brain interactions are like a dynamic system. Thinking causes feeling and feeling causes thinking and round and round we go... Into the depressive spiral. Is the best intervention therapy to help with the thoughts or medication to help with the chemicals? The best intervention is both. Attacks on all fronts.
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