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According to new research, with teenage depression, cognitive therapy works better antidepressants, wrote New York Times. During the year, the study involved 600 adolescents with pronounced signs of chronic depression, including thoughts of suicide. Four of them managed to completely cure the disease for 9 months with a conversational therapy or its combination with antidepressants.

Patients who were treated only with antidepressants, showed signs of significant improvement at 6 weeks earlier, but after treatment the risk of a return to the suicidal thoughts was quite high. Conversation therapy leads to complete remission. The authors of a new method of treatment believe that the best option is a combination of cognitive and chemical therapy.

For several years, experts discuss that antidepressants Prozac or Paxil are best suited for the treatment of depression in adolescents. Since 2004, manufacturers of these drugs must indicate on the labels that antidepressants can cause unpredictable psychological changes.

The study authors noted that cognitive therapy has proved itself as a safe alternative to chemical treatment. Almost 15% of adolescents who consumed only antidepressants during treatment reported higher anxiety attacks and mental breakdowns, forcing doctors to conduct additional surveys and to change the dosage. Head of the Medical Center of Duke University John March said: “Chemotherapy can accelerate the treatment, but the conversational therapy eliminates the side effects and can be recommended as a safe means of treating depression in children and adolescents.”