Posted by scatterbrained on April 21, 2006, at 4:09:16
In reply to Drugs versus Psychotherapy - Backlash?, posted by SLS on April 6, 2006, at 9:43:54
I don't know how I feel about psychotherapy being considered as effective as meds, I certainly haven't found that to be the case. I have found psychotherapy effective prior to my major depression causing awful problems with cognition and prior to anhedonia. I think one needs to have a certain level of emotional and intellectual responsiveness for therapy to work. This is impossible given the symptoms I am experiencing.Anhedonia causes a flat,indifference which nothing can penetrate . and because of deficits in my working memory I can't do the cognitive therapy "worst case scenario" type thing in my head, nor anything else, because I forget what I'm thinking about half way through. Biological treatments have been the only thing that have ,although transiently, helped clear up my head and take away my anhedonia. I do believe that for certain people, the right psychotherapy is a safer and more effective treatment.I would actually venture to say that most people with depression would probably benefit from psychotherapy. But when you have something that is as severe as what i have and what many other people on this site have, especially if it effects cognition, then it's in the neurological realm not the psychological. I think there are two different illnesses that are being unfairly lumped together.
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