Pills Over Therapy?
March 8, 2011
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Recent studies suggest talk therapy is the most effective treatment for depression, but psychiatrists are prescribing more pills than ever.
BY LIZ REED
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The quintessential image of therapy -- the patient lying on the couch, telling his life story -- might be a thing of the past. That’s according to a New York Times article suggesting psychiatrists are pushing pills over heart-to-heart couch sessions.
The article revolves around one psychiatrist’s struggle to accept his evolving role -- from a psychotherapist to prescription-therapist:
“...[L]ike many of his peers, he treats 1,200 people in mostly 15-minute visits for prescription adjustments that are sometimes months apart. ... Then, his goal was to help his patients become happy and fulfilled; now, it is just to keep them functional.”
Talk therapy was popularized by Sigmund Freud in the 1950s -- before the rise of the pharmaceutical market and the pill-centric therapies of today. A MDiTV report says fault lies not with Big Pharma -- but more with psychiatrists.
“Half a century ago, depression was rare while multitudes sought to calm their anxieties. In the 1970s, depression diagnoses surged while anxieties waned. (FLASH) Back then, they were seen as relieving anxiety, relieving tension and stress and not depression. Whereas now, they’re called antidepressant medications.”
In a culture of immediacy and quick fixes, one Fox News analyst says it’s the demand created by pill poppers that sustains the pharmaceutical industry.
“People are also at fault, people are less anxious to discuss what’s bothering them if there’s a pill they can take that can fix it... (FLASH) Find a good friend and tell them what’s bothering you and very often you’ll find that that’s enough and you may not need these various pills, all of which have side effects.”
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