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Depressions Many Treatments

Posted on July 21, 2008

Therese Borchard over at Beyond Blue wrote about the disconcerting either/or artificial dichotomy that some researchers and doctors set up about treatments for mental conditions such as depression. Medications for depression are either evil and the root cause of all of society s problems, or they are saviors and rescue people from a lifetime of suffering. Depression is either a problem with living and one s life, or it s a biological disease we simply don t yet understand. Psychiatrist James Gordon is the subject of the ire, because he s promoting his new book over in a Newswee...

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antidepressants , balance , depression , mental illness , teens