[Paleopsych] Talk therapy as cure for depression

[G. Reinhart-Waller]

Depression is hell on earth yet I don't advocate drugs as a continuous 
remedy.  Drugs are nothing more than a quick fix for the moment 
elevating the patient to adequate levels of functioning without 
providing a permanent solution to the problem.... other than taking a 
stronger dose.  Talk therapy has worked in the past and although much 
more time-consuming for the doctor seems a more amenable solution.   
Some patients have actually been "cured" from talk.  The downside is 
that both talk and drugs are habit forming.

Gerry Reinhart-Waller

Steve Hovland wrote:

>Speaking from long experience, depression
>has a lot in common with being dead.
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>Steve Hovland
>www.stevehovland.net
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