In Part I and Part II of this series, we examined drug-free alternatives to treating depression including exercise, psychotherapy, light therapy, St. John's Wort and acupuncture. We have learned that all of these treatments are at least as effective as antidepressants in the short term, and some (exercise and psychotherapy) are more effective in the long-term. All of these treatments have far fewer side effects, risks and complications than antidepressants. In fact, the ...
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In the first article in this three-part series on treating depression without drugs, we established that several non-drug treatments are at least as effective in treating depression than antidepressants - with few, if any of their side effects. Specifically, we learned that both psychotherapy and exercise compare favorably with antidepressants for treating even serious depression in the short-term, and are both more effective than antidepressants in the long-term. Today we will examine three other drug-free treatments ...
The most widely prescribed drugs in the U.S. are not for pain management, cholesterol lowering, heartburn or hypertension. They're for depression. Last year doctors wrote $232.7 million prescriptions for antidepressants. That's an increase of 25 million prescriptions since 2003 and translates into an estimated 30 million patients in the United States who spent $12 billion on antidepressants in 2007. With numbers like these, a person might make these assumptions: Antidepressants are effective treatments for depression There are few, if any, ...
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