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Psychotherapy + Meds for Chronic Depression

Posted on August 07, 2008

Although we harp on this at least once every few months, it bears repeating: Psychotherapy with medication is usually the best possible treatment option for depression (acute or chronic) for nearly everyone. If you re only doing one or the other, you re likely not going to get well as quickly, it s that simple. We have decades worth of research showing this, but here s another one to add to the pile. Manber and colleagues (2008) re-examined previous data on 656 patients with chronic depression to see who would get to remission first. Remission in depression research is simply when a...

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antidepressant , depression