New Frontiers in the Fight Against Depression
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The Advantages of Accelerated Treatments for Depression?
The standard protocol is you do the the 36 treatments, and if it works, either a responseor the depression is in remission. A roughly 80 % of folks who get that good response will still be doing better one year later. If someone had a good response to the treatment and starts to relapse into depression within that first year, the standard practice is to offer a kind of booster series of five, ten or 15 treatments,. which will usually usually work and get that person out of the depression again.
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