Depression Therapy Comments

Counseling therapy that has the most merit and support in the medical literature is called cognitive therapy. In fact, cognitive therapy has been shown to be equally as effective as antidepressant drugs in treating moderate depression. However, while there is a high rate of relapse of depression when drugs are used, the relapse rate

for cognitive therapy is much lower. People taking drugs for depression tend to have to stay on them for the rest

of their lives. That is not the case with cognitive therapy because the patient is taught new skills to deal with depression. Psychologists and other mental health specialists trained in cognitive therapy seek to change the way the depressed person consciously thinks about failure, defeat, loss, and helplessness.