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12/09/2017 / By Isabelle Z.

The power of your mind: Mindfulness proven, again, to be just as effective as pharma drugs for mental health

If you’ve dismissed mindfulness as a fad, you could be missing out on a very valuable tool for your mental health. In fact, it can be just as effective as the gold standard therapy – individual cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) – for a range of psychiatric symptoms, according to a new study published in European […]

08/04/2016 / By Greg White

Major meta-analysis finds Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) to be more effective for patients who reduce or discontinue antidepressant medication than for those who don’t.

The largest study conducted on Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) found participants who received the treatment and reduced or quit taking antidepressants were less likely to relapse in comparison to those who continued taking antidepressants in conjunction with MBCT. Antidepressant medication (AD) is the most widely used drug to treat symptoms associated with major depression disorder […]

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