Of course, removing the causes of stress would be the best treatment.
Contrast the antidepressant study with those which pretend that maternal depression has negligible epigenetic effects on the developing fetus, infant, and child.
This study’s finding sums up the malaise throughout the current dog-and-pony-show approaches in psychotherapy, where:
Efforts to treat symptoms are maximized, and approaches to treat causes are minimized;
The therapist is in charge, not the patient;
The thinking brain is the all-in-all, while the feeling and instinctual parts of the patient’s brain that drive behavior are suppressed.
To eliminate any contribution of the drug industry in determining treatment, one could use acetyl-L-carnitine.
I curated http://surfaceyourrealself.com/2015/03/23/a-common-dietary-supplement-that-has-rapid-and-lasting-antidepressant-effects-surfaceyourrealself/
a study http://www.pnas.org/content/110/12/4804
that showed it reversed the epigenetic effects of stress.
Of course, removing the causes of stress would be the best treatment.
Contrast the antidepressant study with those which pretend that maternal depression has negligible epigenetic effects on the developing fetus, infant, and child.
http://surfaceyourrealself.com/2015/02/17/maternal-depression-and-antidepressants-epigenetically-change-infant-language-development-surfaceyourrealself/
This study’s finding sums up the malaise throughout the current dog-and-pony-show approaches in psychotherapy, where:
Efforts to treat symptoms are maximized, and approaches to treat causes are minimized;
The therapist is in charge, not the patient;
The thinking brain is the all-in-all, while the feeling and instinctual parts of the patient’s brain that drive behavior are suppressed.
http://surfaceyourrealself.com/2015/02/15/want-empathy-from-your-therapist-dont-give-a-scientific-explanation-of-your-condition-surfaceyourrealself/