Tuesday, 5 January 2010

Depression - is this the right approach?

Three quarters of GPs have prescribed anti-depressants even though they think another treatment would have been more effective, a survey has found.

The full article on this can be found on the BBC website - here

The Mental Health Foundation says meditation halves the risk of repeated depression and should be more readily available, but access is very limited.

Depression affects one in 10 people a year, with more than half of those experiencing more than one episode.

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