If you take prescription drugs for depression, such as Prozac or Zoloft, you may want to reconsider. Now I’m not telling you that drugs are bad, but what I am telling you is that they are more effective in reliving depression. Studies have shown that cognitive therapy, which means seeing a cognitive psychologist, is as effective as prescription medication for relieving depression. but it is more effective to completely remove depression. Let me elaborate, recent studies show the relapse time for people who have undergone cognitive therapy is 30 percent, compared to 70 percent for people using anti-depressants. If you don’t understand what we mean by this: a study showed that people who were depressed using anti-depressants because they decided they no longer needed them had a 70 percent chance of returning to their abnormal depressive ways. Likewise, for those who underwent cognitive therapy, the study showed only a 30 percent chance of returning to abnormal depressive patterns.
There are various reasons why this happens. Some scientists think it’s a morale booster, which has been shown to reduce addictions. However, others think it has to do with the therapy hitting a part of the brain that is not affected by anti-depressants. However, cognitive therapy helps you deal with your emotions, as opposed to anti-depressants, which only help you get over your emotions for a short period of time. For this reason, anti-depressants act a lot like a pain-reliever – you get it back but it doesn’t cure the pain problem< /a>.
Unfortunately, since the therapist is expensive, which is why medical insurance usually does not cover the therapy. Most insurance plans are fixed for the living, so prescribing you anti-depressants to shut your mouth. That’s why I’m going to give you personal advice to help you, if you’re depressed, to reduce your level of anxiety. Let me say that depression stems from a long history of irrational beliefs. It should be known that a man can have irrational and rational opinions; However, those who are depressed tend to have more irrational beliefs than rational ones. Therefore, if depression is the cause of your depression, it is primarily due to irrational beliefs, such as the thought “Nobody loves my body” or “Nobody calls me ugly.” These irrational beliefs lead to negative consequences, such as depression or worse.
My advice to you is to try and force yourself to think rationally, because when you think rationally, you are more likely to develop feelings about yourself and the world around you. If you continue to think irrationally, then the exact opposite will happen. Furthermore, if you find yourself on the edge of an irrational thought, tell yourself how ridiculous the thought is. It is important to remember that the world is never against you. Until then, it’s equally important to remember that it’s not what happens in life that determines your future, it’s what you think will happen in life. If you believe that you are a horrible person, that you will be alone forever, then you will create emotions to accommodate those beliefs. Similarly, if you think of yourself as a good person and realize that you sometimes have silly thoughts, you will begin to perceive the world as a much happier and friendlier place.
Depression is a difficult disease to diagnose, yet it seems to be widely misdiagnosed. With an increased rate of prescribing anti-depressants, it almost seems that psychiatrists are harming patients. I would not be surprised to see psychologists granted the authority to prescribe medicine in the future, like the prescription of prescription drugs for epidemics.
