Psychoterapy
Psychoterapy
Many forms of psychotherapy, including some short-term (10-20 week) therapies, can help depressed individuals. "Talking" therapies help patients gain insight into and resolve their problems through verbal exchange with the therapist, sometimes combined with "homework" assignments between sessions. "Behavioral" therapists help patients learn how to obtain more satisfaction and rewards through their own actions and how to unlearn the behavioral patterns that contribute to or result from their depression.
Two of the short-term psychotherapies that research has shown helpful for some forms of depression are interpersonal and cognitive/behavioral therapies. Interpersonal therapists focus on the patient's disturbed personal relationships that both cause and exacerbate (or increase) the depression. Cognitive/behavioral therapists help patients change the negative styles of thinking and behaving often associated with depression.
Psychodynamic therapies, which are sometimes used to treat depressed persons, focus on resolving the patient's conflicted feelings. These therapies are often reserved until the depressive symptoms are significantly improved. In general, severe depressive illnesses, particularly those that are recurrent, will require medication (or ECT under special conditions) along with, or preceding, psychotherapy for the best outcome.
Many people with dysthymia also experience major depressive episodes at some time in their lives.
Recent research shows that certain types of short-term psychotherapy, particularly cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), can help relieve depression in children and adolescents.
Day 23 - (13/08/07) - Week 2 update kamujian posted a photo: Its been 2 weeks since i started trying to lose that pesky 15 Kg's
Heres the Vital statistics:
Starting Weight: 100.7KG / 221.5 lbs
Weight at start of week: 99KG / 217.8 lbs
Current weight: 97.9KG / 215.4 lbs
Weight lost this week: 1.1 KG / 2.3 lbs
Total weight loss: 2.8 KG / 6.1lbs
I've just been watching my diet still not excersising a smuch as i want but cutting out all the junk food i used to eat at work and taking my food to work, instead of buying it has pretty much lowered my weight by itself and also had the added benefit of leaving more money in my wallet :)
Other Depression Article Snippets:
How Family And Friends Can Help
"Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is useful, particularly for individuals whose depression is severe or life threatening or who cannot take antidepressant medication."
Co Occurrence Of Depression With Other Illnesses
"Some clinicians treating men with antidepressant associated sexual dysfunction report improvement with the addition of bupropion (Wellbutrin) or sildenafil (Viagra) to ongoing treatment."
How To Help Yourself If You Are Depressed
"Although depression itself can lower libido and impair sexual performance, SSRIs and some other antidepressants can provoke sexual dysfunction."
Psychotherapies
"CBT is based on the premise that people with depression have cognitive distortions in their views of themselves, the world, and the future."