Posted by happyflower on September 25, 2006, at 6:01:22
In reply to Re: How well does CBT work for depression, posted by alexandra_k on September 25, 2006, at 1:37:20
CBT is known to work as well as meds alone can. The best combination for severe depresson is meds and therapy. (or ECT, although it has a huge stigma attached to it, but it works very well)
It is interesting to read the above posts, since I have had almost 2 years of cognitive therapy, that I can see the faulty thinking in the posts a lot now and in everyday life when talking to people. I never saw this before therapy. While it is true that seeing other's thinking is different when it come to seeing your own thinking. But yeah, I think CBT therapy is very affective, according to my personal experience, and most studies show CBT works great for depression. Meds work great too, and I have read that doing absoultely nothing will work too eventually on mild depression. So it all comes down to the individual. ;-)
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