The best course of action to take sometimes isn’t clear until you’ve listed and considered your alternatives. The following paragraphs should help clue you in to what the experts think is significant.

In the past treatment of depression was done by many different types of talk therapy by psychologists. There are over 250 psychotherapy “techniques”, and NONE of them have been proven to work any better than any other.

But, the fact remains that very few depressed patients were ever “cured” by talk type psychotherapy. As a matter of fact, it has been shown in several studies that talking to a sympathetic friend, even a bartender, or almost anyone who will listen is about as good as talking to a clinician (at $100 up per hour).

The APA has neatly classified several different types of Depression Treating (manic, bipolar, unipolar, post-partum, grief, etc – mostly for the purposes of legally making them covered by health insurance.)

Psychiatrists would seem to have somewhat of an advantage here. They have the battery of drugs that “seem” to help depressed persons at least get thru life without too many suicides from depression. Here’s another fact. Nobody ever got depressed because of poor toilet training as a child.

Freud had a lot of good ideas, but this wasn’t one of them. There’s been a lot written about stress causing Depression Treating , and stress is a component (as poor toilet training may be). But, it doesn’t CAUSE depression directly. So, just what does cause depression?

The Orthomolecular Theory and my experience in taught me that there were three basic causes of Depression Treating . Clearing up these “stresses” cleared up the patient’s ability to withstand the normal stress of everyday living as well as the heavy stresses put on some at times.

Full article at: symptoms of depression

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