by Michael Heitt | Feb 10, 2016 | benefits of therapy, medication, Psychotherapy, side effects
The American College of Physicians has released a new clinical guideline on the treatment of depression in the Annals of Internal Medicine. They suggested that psychotherapy is as effective for treating depression as antidepressants, and “given its relative...
by Michael Heitt | Jan 27, 2016 | benefits of therapy, medication, Psychotherapy
The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) now officially recommends that primary care health clinicians screen all of their patients for depression. Though this is wonderful, this is very, very long overdue. The costs associated with depression and other mental...
by Michael Heitt | Jun 30, 2015 | benefits of therapy, medication, Psychotherapy, side effects
I stumbled upon this brief piece in the Huffington Post about when patients should consider doing psychotherapy, trying medication, doing both at the same time or not doing anything at all. I liked this article because it was short and to the point while giving some...
by Michael Heitt | Nov 25, 2014 | medication, Psychotherapy, suicide
An article was recently published in The Lancet Psychiatry and nicely summarized in Forbes describing the benefits of even short-term psychotherapy on repeated suicide attempts and suicide related deaths. Not surprisingly, the data suggest that talk therapy serves to...
by Michael Heitt | Nov 11, 2014 | medication, Patient safety, Uncategorized
For the past decade some of the “newer” antidepressants have had “black box warnings” that caution about a risk of suicidal thoughts and behaviors in young adults and kids. Though there has been controversy about this, the benefits and risks...
by Michael Heitt | Sep 10, 2014 | benefits of therapy, exercise, medication, self care
Research has shown that when depressed people exercise 3-5 times per week for 45-60 minutes per session and achieve a heart rate of 50-85% of their max heart rate, the exercise is as effective, if not more effective, than medication. The Atlantic published a nice...
