August 15, 2002

DEAD WRONG

By Nathaniel S. Lehrman, MD

The current drug treatment for depression represents one of the greatest fallacies in the history of medicine.

Depression is not a disease, such as pneumonia or malaria. Rather, depression is usually a psycho physiological reaction to an individual’s current psychosocial interactions. Depressive reactions are also seen in animals exposed to continuing levels of stress from which they cannot escape.

When thinking of depression, think of fever, which is also a reaction of mind and body to a set of complex conditions.

It has been known for centuries that talking with a caring counselor can help depressed people. If the counselor is cheerful and confident (which seems less frequent today), and conveys that confidence to his client, the latter’s chances of relief will be greater. Religion and its officiants have provided these services over the years. And personal caring has been seen as an essential part of the......

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