Posted by alohashirt on December 27, 2005, at 23:17:34 [reposted on December 28, 2005, at 23:14:56 | original URL]
In reply to Re: Attn. pill poppers: Who's in psychotherapy?, posted by gibber on December 24, 2005, at 23:08:50
There is an enormous amount of research tha considers the effectiveness of therapy and medication. Much of the research involves metastudies where long lists of studies are evaluated en masse. Research suggests that medication on its own or therapy on its own, is effective in approximately 1/3 of cases. There has been no consistent result indicating that therapy school #34 is better than #56When I flirted with pschology graduate study I saw therapists who were:
1. psychodynamic
2. CBT
3. Rogerian
4. hypnosis
5. integrative/gestalt
6. psychodynamic /gesalt1. was unhelpful
2. was seriously cute but unhelpful
3. was famous, a well known author, unhelpful
4. fixed painful insomnia even though I thought hypnosis was intrincially a field for quacks and charalatans
5. was OK
6. enormously helpful because of the person of the therapist and not their approach.5 out of 6 therapists were less effective than 2 hours at the Met, MOMA, the Tate Gallery or the Victoria and ALbert museum.
So if the first doesn't help don't give up and don't keep seeing someone who doesn't help.
> Thanks everybody for your responses. It seems that the concensus is that most of you are in talk therapy too and are gaining some relief from it. I recall someone mentioning that dysthymia is a less severe form of depression, however in hindsight I think I would have rather been extremely depressed for a few months than moderately depressed for a few years. My life has been on hold for many years. I should add that I would consider myself treatment resistant and have run the gamut of SSRIs and a few others and am now on Nardil. I apologize for using the term "pill popper", I realize it has negative connotations but that was not my intention. I think I'll probably see about some therapy. I have not officially done CTB, but I feel like what I did do was useful for anxiety, especially thought stopping and the like. Does it really work for depression?
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