Research suggests that CBT is at least as effective as antidepressants for patients with major depression. The treatment has also shown promise for anxiety and other mood disorders.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the greatest selling point of CBT is that it appears to be more effective than medication in the long term. Patients who are successfully treated with cognitive therapy, for instance, are roughly half as likely as patients taking antidepressants to relapse after the end of treatment.<\/p>\n

For severely depressed patients, one potential downside of CBT is that for the treatment to be effective they have to (as the saying goes) really want to change. Research suggests that patients who believe in their ability to improve and who complete their homework assignments get better results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Homework like journal writing is part of cognitive-behavioral therapy.(HAENSEL\/ZEFA\/CORBIS)Many patients with disabling depression have no appetite for sitting on a couch recounting childhood traumas or last night's dreams for months—or years—before they start to feel better. Antidepressants may help in such cases, but even if they do, when patients stop taking them there's a good […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,71,45],"tags":[37,72,47],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}