Comments on: Forget Antidepressants: UK Trains More Therapists http://www.pharmalot.com/2008/02/forget-antidepressants-uk-trains-army-of-therapists/ News, Comment and Conversation Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:45:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: ol cranky http://www.pharmalot.com/2008/02/forget-antidepressants-uk-trains-army-of-therapists/#comment-186403 ol cranky Sun, 02 Mar 2008 18:41:11 +0000 http://www.pharmalot.com/2008/02/forget-antidepressants-uk-trains-army-of-therapists/#comment-186403 If you were being objective, you must also agree that quite a few people who are not on a medicine cocktail also suffer from depression or other mental health disorders. Diet, exercise and nutrition alone do not cure, treat or prevent these disorders; they can, however, help in the treatment of them. Everyone presenting with symptoms of clinical depression should be fully evaluated to include a physical exam, psych eval, & labs (thyroid function tests and, maybe, fasting insulin, in particular). A whole mind and body approach to diagnosis and treatment is critical to success. If you were being objective, you must also agree that quite a few people who are not on a medicine cocktail also suffer from depression or other mental health disorders. Diet, exercise and nutrition alone do not cure, treat or prevent these disorders; they can, however, help in the treatment of them. Everyone presenting with symptoms of clinical depression should be fully evaluated to include a physical exam, psych eval, & labs (thyroid function tests and, maybe, fasting insulin, in particular). A whole mind and body approach to diagnosis and treatment is critical to success.

]]> By: steve hayes http://www.pharmalot.com/2008/02/forget-antidepressants-uk-trains-army-of-therapists/#comment-186042 steve hayes Sun, 02 Mar 2008 14:32:11 +0000 http://www.pharmalot.com/2008/02/forget-antidepressants-uk-trains-army-of-therapists/#comment-186042 Training therapists is not the answer. Ensuring proper nutrition and a very good physical exam is the better answer. As the director of Novus Medical Detox, I often see patients who are on alcohol or opioids, central nervous system depressants, also taking antidepressants. When they detox they find they don't need the antidepressants. This is good news because a Swedish study showed that 52% of the 2006 suicides by women on antidepressants. Since antidepressants work no better than placebos and are less effective than exercise in dealing with depression. There is a prescription drug epidemic and these are leaders in the list of terribe abuses. Steve Hayes http://novusdetox.com Training therapists is not the answer. Ensuring proper nutrition and a very good physical exam is the better answer. As the director of Novus Medical Detox, I often see patients who are on alcohol or opioids, central nervous system depressants, also taking antidepressants. When they detox they find they don’t need the antidepressants.

This is good news because a Swedish study showed that 52% of the 2006 suicides by women on antidepressants. Since antidepressants work no better than placebos and are less effective than exercise in dealing with depression.

There is a prescription drug epidemic and these are leaders in the list of terribe abuses.

Steve Hayes
http://novusdetox.com

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