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Ep. 170: Dr. Steven Hollon — Depression 1. Surprising Insights about the Best Ways to Treat Depression

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CBT and Depression Medications - How Do They Affect the Kind of Natural Progression of Depression?

In this model, depression is an adaptive response that drives a certain way of direct energy toward the brain to think through complex social problems. Medications will medicate the pain, but it may be like nesticizing the squids you're going to operate on. The people we see clinically that get stuck in the depression are the ones that get stuck coming down with stable trait theories usually on the competent or on the level and they get stuck there. What you want to do is get them past that. If it helps you resolve social problems, it's a painful experience which gets you kicking into very careful type two relative thinking where you get really focused on first analyzing what the problem is, what

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