Posted by SLS on September 27, 2009, at 20:06:48
In reply to Re: Success Rate of Antidepressants And Theraphy, posted by sowhysosad on September 27, 2009, at 15:41:40
> > Just a link on success of antidepressants and therphy. Phillipa
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> While I'm sure combining meds and therapy is a perfect fit for some people, I'm very bored of my successive (UK) pdocs banging on about therapy - and in particular CBT.
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> You'd think it was some kind of magical panacea which will save the entire UK from mental health problems.
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> They're now so bogged down in this thinking that they deny that purely biochemical depressions exist.
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> The irony is that the latest pdoc couldn't even offer me CBT on the NHS due to lack of resources. She insisted I contacted a mental health charity instead.
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> That said, I'm sure combining therapy with the right meds can be a terrific treatment for some types of depression.Psychotherapy does not produce an improvement in my depression. None at all. The depression persists despite my accomplishing the goals that I set out to address in psychotherapy.
For some people, it is crucial to process the psychological issues that contributed to the precipitation of their biological depressive condition. Psychosocial stress can be minimized to allow for a faster recovery and prevent relapse.
I think there might be differences between unipolar atypical depression and bipolar depression with respect to the propensity of psychotherapy to yield meaningful results in reducing symptom severity. I have no data to present, however. I am just trying to account for the results reported in the literature. An alternate hypothesis is that many of the studies reporting success with psychotherapy in depression are not treating the right kind of depression. I am dubious that the majority of these studies accurately diagnose their subjects as having major depressive disorder.
- Scott
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