Talk Therapy Plus Meds May Be Best for Severe Depression [Consumer.Healthday.com]

Samantha Sangenito 8/25/144:00 AM

A combination of therapy and antidepressants appears to best help people with severe but short-term depression, a new study reports.

Four out of five people suffering from severe depression for less than two years experienced full recovery when treated with cognitive therapy plus antidepressant medication, researchers found.

[For more of this story, written by Dennis Thompson, go to http://consumer.healthday.com/...pression-691014.html]

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"It could help us figure out who needs therapy acutely and who will benefit most from medication, because it's so hard to find a therapist," Krakower said.

Hum???? So this work helps us learn who could be treated from medication because it is so hard to find a therapist????? But the study results are that meds PLUS therapy for these patients product the best outcome.

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