Weapons for defeat depression

The research study indicates that any mood therapy self-help book appeared to have a substantial antidepressant effects.The researchers compared the magnitude of the improvement in these groups with the amount of improvement in published outcome studies using antidepressant medications or psychotherapy or both.In the large national institute of mental health collaborative depression study,there was an average reduction of 11.6 points on the HRSD in patients who received cognitive therapy from highly trained therapists for twelve weeks. This was very similar to the 10.6-point change in the HRSD observer in the patients who read MOOD THERAPY self-help book like "feeling good" after just four weeks.However the bibliotherapy treatment seemed to work significantly faster.By David.D.burns clinical experience confirms this practice very few patients have recovered during the first four weeks of treatment.The percentage of patients who dropped out the bibliotherapy was also very small, around 10 percent.this is less than most published outcome studies using drugs or psychotherapy, which typically have dropout rates from 15 percent to over 50 percent. Finally, the patients developed significantly more positive attitudes and thinking patterns after reading self-help mood therapy book.You can defeat depression by changing the negative thinking patterns that cause it.the researcher concluded that the bibliotherapy was effective for patients suffering from depression and might also have a significant role in public education and in depression prevention programs.
They speculated the bibliotherapy might help prevent serious episodes of depression among individuals with tendency toward negative thinking.

finally , the researchers addressed another important concern: would the Antidepressant effects of bibliotherapy last? 

                                       Skillful Motivational speakers can be a crowd of people excited and optimistic for brief periods of time but these brief mood elevating effects ofter don't last.The same problem holds for the treatment of depression. following successful treatment with drugs or psychotherapy,many patients feel tremendously improved only to relapse back into depression after a period of time.These relapses can be devastating because patients feel so demoralized.

In 1997, the investigators reported the results of a three-year follow-up of the patients.The authors were Drs.Nancy Smith, Mark Floyd, and Forest Scogin from the University of Alabama and Dr.Christine Jamison from the Tuskegee veterans affairs medical center.After three years researchers learned that the patients did not relapse but maintained their gains during this three years period.More than half of the patients said that their moods continued to improve following the completion of the
initial study. The diagnostic findings at the three-year evaluation confirmed this 72% of the patients still did not meet the criteria for a major depressive episode, and 70% did not seek or receive any further treatment with medications or psychotherapy during the follow-up period. 

Although they experienced the normal ups and downs we all feel from time to time.Forty percent of the patients said that the best part of the self-help anti depressive book was that it helped them change their negative thinking patterns such as learning to be less perfectionist and to give up all-or-nothing thinking.
Of course, bibliotherapy had limitations, like all studies.For one thing,not every patient was "cured" by self-help book.No treatment is a panacea.While it is encouraging that many patients seem to respond to reading self-help book, it is also clear that some patients with more severe or chronic depressions will need the help of a therapist and possibly an anti-depression medication as well.This is nothing to be ashamed of. Different individuals respond better to different approaches.

It is good  that we now have three types of effective treatment for depression:

• Antidepressant medications
• individual and group psychotherapy and
• bibliotherapy ( reading therapy ) 

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