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Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Depression: Medicate, Meditate, or Both?

"If Your Depression Is Triggered By Stress, Should It Be Treated With Medication?":

Surely if a depression is caused by stress, the first step should be to look at the stresses in a person's life? That's just common sense. To say that medication is just as likely needed as not just seems ridiculous to me and pandering to a drug industry in whose interest it is to medicalise all human problems. I have a real problem with that.
I agree with you to some extent, Ellen. I do think the starting point is to look at the stresses in a person's life, and you're right sometimes medication is doled out prematurely. (More)

Source: Beliefnet.com

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