Best Depression Treatment Choices

The best depression treatment choices are based on three major areas.

These include:

1. medication,



2. various forms of psychological and alternative therapy,



3. and lifestyle management including stress control

Depression is a treatable condition. The best depression treatment plans combine therapy and medication.

Depression can range in intensity from mild to severe.

Best Depression Treatment: Medication

This is a depressed condition that's gone on for at least 2 weeks or more, and gets in the way of everyday life.

It usually interferes with a person's ability to carry on daily tasks or to enjoy activities that used to be fun.

Research has shown several patterns of clinical and biological features among older adults with depression.

Adults whose depression first appears in late life are likely to have a more chronic course of illness. Therefore, getting the best depression treatment available early in life, is critical.

In addition, there is growing evidence that depression beginning in late life is associated with vascular changes in the brain.

Both antidepressant medications and short-term psychotherapies are effective treatments for late-life depression.

Available antidepressant medications are known to affect the functioning of neurotransmitters in the brain.

For the best depression treatment with medications, see the page on "Antidepressant Medications: Advantages and Disadvantages"

Best Depression Treatment: Therapies

In addition, psychotherapy alone has been shown to prolong periods of good health free from depression.

Combining psychotherapy with antidepressant medication, however, appears to provide the best depression treatment.

In one study, approximately 80 percent of older adults with depression recovered with combination treatment.

The combination treatment was also found to be more effective than either treatment alone in reducing recurrences of depression.

Professional use of EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)can help with depression and anxiety as well.

A variety of alternative treatments are available, such as acupuncture, energy fields, and other therapies based on the connection between mind and body. Learn all about the benefits of massage therapy.

The best depression treatment for you will depend on your individual situation, resources and awareness of different approaches available. .

Emotional Freedom Techniques

Depression, addictive cravings, children's issues and hundreds of physical symptoms have responded favorably to EFT.

Some of the more common symptoms where EFT has been effective include headaches, body pains and breathing difficulties.

Properly applied, over 80% achieve either noticeable improvement or complete cessation of the problem. EFT often works where nothing else will.

It is usually rapid, long lasting and gentle. There are no drugs or equipment involved.

This technique is easily learned by anyone, and can be self applied. This qualifies it as a best depression treatment option because of economical and availability factors.

Danette's Experience

Here is an example of how one client used EFT for herself after just a few sessions with me:

Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 3:48 PM Subject: Thank You

Oh, My Gosh, Karen.....

Had to share. EFTing. Watching Video 1. Decide to clear meridians so I can absorb better. I opened the door to that unknown room and stuff came flooding out!

Started with:

"Even though Reginald did this horrible thing, I deeply and completely accept myself. .." (Then I thought: Well, it's probably my fault he did it, because I don't like sex or intimacy)

Tapping again...." Even though I don't like sex....Even though I don't like sex with Reginald (because I have never had any kind of intimacy with anyone else, I don't really know if I like it or not), I deeply and completely accept myself." ...hmmmm....

(Then I thought: Yeah, but even though I didn't like intimacy, there are other ways we could have dealt with it. He never told me our infrequency was bothering him. And it was his choice to break our vows.....)

What other blockages are hurting me?

"Even though I don't get along with Denise (my sister), I deeply and completely accept myself"

---How do I know I can honestly say that? Because from the age of 9 through the time I left for college, I gave her almost constant attention.

Activities like playing games, reading, drawing, dancing, going swimming, taking her with me and my friends, going to movies, getting ice cream cones.

Loving acts like going to her recitals, loving her and buying her tee-shirts, telling her stories and playing word games as we did dishes.

I gave her everything I had inside me, and when I left for college, she hated me for leaving her, and found more reasons for hating and blaming me as time went on.

She never gives me credit or builds me up in her children's eyes, or thanks or acknowledges the love I gave to her....

"Even though Denise never acknowledges anything good I did, I deeply and completely acknowledge it, myself "..... but then, neither did my parents acknowledge the summers I spent babysitting for Denise when I could have been earning money for school, or for clothes.

I knew they gave me a home to live in and food to eat, but how hard would it have been to say I was doing a good job at school, or with Denise, or with something? I guess we all just took each other for granted.

"Even though my parents never acknowledged anything I ever did, I (I start to cry) "...then I tell Reginald, who's in the other room, that this EFT is really uncovering some blockages that are very profound for me.

I can tell they really hit some sore spots, because just knowing something has been exposed, I feel lightened up.

It also opened up some possibility of why Denise hasn't let her kids come to visit me or hasn't really invited me to be around her family.

Denise knew how much she loved me and how I provided uplifting and encouraging experiences for her (like taking her little drawings to elementary school with me, and asking my teacher to mark an "A" on them.

Then I would take them back home and say, "See, my teacher gave you an "A"!"

Or taking her to college classes with me when she visited in the summer time.) It's possible that she didn't want her kids to love me "more" than they did her......even our older sister said that maybe Denise was jealous of me, because I had always been so good with children.

If that's so, it's so sad. I never would have tried to replace her or outshine her.

I have always praised her to our family and have refrained from gossiping about her, except to say that I don't understand why she does the things she does. But as I process it through EFT, some things seem to become clearer.

So. Thank You, Thank You, Thank You!

Now back to Video 1. Kokoro Kara, Kansha shiteimasu.

(Japanese: From my heart, I am thanking you.)

Danette (real name withheld for purposes of confidentiality)

Be Set Free Fast

Often these distressing problems will have underlying root causes, or core issues which may originate during childhood.

I use BSFF™ in my professional practice, in combination with other treatment approaches, such as medication and cognitive behavioral therapy.

I also use it through my personal coaching website consultation program. This allows you to benefit from the treatment via telephone and/or email.

Telephone BSFF is the best depression treatment for mild or situational depression, before it becomes chronic and severe. For more information, contact me by filling out this form and learn more about the very best depression treatment approaches available: