The World Health Organisation (WHO) reports that depression is the leading cause of mental health in the world. In 2021, WHO statistics showed over 700,000 people die of suicide each year – and worryingly, it\u2019s the fourth leading cause of death in 15-29-year-olds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the current paradigm for treating anxiety and depression with established interventions, this data is going to get worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What I find most disturbing is that professionals give their patients substandard treatments and, more worryingly, accept those treatments only work for half their patients as a fact of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Not only that, but when the treatments do work, they are not permanent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It would appear that the majority of therapists haven’t done their research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In this article, I\u2019ve listed examples of studies and reports that documents the effectiveness of the most common treatments for treating patients with anxiety and depression. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n And then I show you studies of treatments that deliver better results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Spoiler alert: the results for the most common interventions – anti-depressants, cognitive behaviour disorder (CBT) and various talk therapies are not very encouraging. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n And if you do have depression, mainstream sources are not going to steer you towards effective treatment – or, for that matter, give you an optimistic outlook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I’ve got good news for you…There is a cure for anxiety and depression! <\/p>\n\n\n\n Now there\u2019s a question that splits the grand jury. Nearly all research data shows that around 50% of people do respond to various treatments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Take a look at these statistics published by leading \u201cauthorities\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe American Psychiatric Association, at least 50% of people who have an episode of major depression will go on to have a second. And about 80% of people who have two episodes will have a third.\u201d ~ WebMD<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n That\u2019s a lot of people having a relapse!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Can we have some better news, please?<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAlthough the majority of people recovering from a major depressive episode are unlikely to suffer a full relapse within 60 months, most will not remain symptom-free over the same time period.\u201d ~ The British Medical Journal<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Oh, I\u2019ll take that as a no then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What\u2019s more, the BMJ only included 95 people and excluded patients who were on anti-depressants. And the results were still low.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Can anyone else offer a ray of sunshine? Surely, you can Recovery Village. Your company suggests you help patients recover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDepression recovery statistics may not offer the clearest picture of how the disorder affects people. Due to the nature of depressive conditions, there is no absolute cure<\/b>, but ongoing treatment and therapy can mitigate depressive symptoms. After receiving treatment for depression, people may experience diminished symptoms and improved moods due to effective antidepressant medications or coping mechanisms. However, the symptoms of a depressive disorder can return later in the person\u2019s life and require additional treatment if treatment stops.\u201d ~ The Recovery Village<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n No absolute cure?<\/p>\n\n\n\n But you\u2019re called the Recovery Village!<\/p>\n\n\n\n In my experience, there is a cure for anxiety and depression. Many other people that turned their back on anti-depressants and CBT will probably tell you similar stories, but with a range of different treatments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I suffered from anxiety and depression until around the age of 41 after studying esoteric wisdom and expanding my conscious awareness. When you connect to yourself and find purpose and meaning in your life, you overcome – or avoid – depression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Academic studies<\/a> support that there is a “definite relationship of meaning in life with depression and psychological health” yet despite one study in 2012 saying, “more investigation in this area is needed” it doesn’t appear as though researchers are getting to finding to look more deeply into this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And so established institutions continue to sell depressed patients products that don’t work and feed them limiting beliefs that cures are hard to come by. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I am here to tell you that the official line is a lie. There is a cure for depression and anxiety and you don’t need to be popping pills. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Between the ages of 29-31, I sought the help of several doctors, psychologists and counsellors. Their advice, exercises and drugs did not help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Perhaps I should have stayed on the anti-depressants for more than five days – but they made my anxiety and nausea significantly worse. I believe the body does not lie. If you ingest something in your body that should not be there, a biological response emerges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I binned the medication. On hindsight, that was probably a good decision. Anti-depressants only provide a temporary reprieve and are more likely to cause a host of side effects and have been linked with violent behaviour<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Anti-depressants merely mask the symptoms, they don\u2019t cure the problem. When you mask the problems, you hide the issues with your inner world that you need to address. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Jungian psychology has shown that energy from the unconscious impacts how we experience life. This includes beliefs, attitudes, behaviours and other emotional drives that influence our decision-making. And ultimately, our experience of life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n If you know how to identify your emotional drives, it’s easier to determine which energies are creating problems in your life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I appreciate this sounds mystical, but understanding symbolism, in particular, archetypes, enables you to observe, identify and correct emotional drives that push the self-destructive button.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Most Jungian psychologists practice some form of understanding of symbolism. Most will turn to the scientific models of archetypes (which, in my opinion, are only 75%-85% accurate). Other depth psychologists will perform dream analysis<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Master Mind Content does both dream analysis and tarot to identify archetypal energies. Either way, we can determine which emotional drives, motivations, beliefs and attitudes are influencing your everyday life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Not only that, but all you have to do is tell me a story and I can identify which archetypal energies are trying to make themselves known. As we discuss the archetypes, you will think of another story where something similar happened. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Before the end of your first session, we will have established a pattern of behaviour. All we need to do then is find the root cause and decide how we are going to transform your energy and expand your conscious awareness. <\/p>\n\n\n\n If you’re experiencing depression, I already know which archetypes are dominating your life. The negative caretaker and\/or the Everyman. I also know which archetypes you need to help pull yourself out of the mire; the Explorer, Lover, Hero and Sage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Whilst these same archetypes can help anybody overcome depression, how you apply their qualities will be different for everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I know the practices I teach work from personal experience. As mentioned above, I also feel that conventional treatments that are used to treat patients with anxiety and depression are not effective. The statistics support my suspicions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Let\u2019s take a look at some anti-depressant stats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Anti-depressants are the leading intervention for anxiety and depression – despite the results being sketchy, to say the least.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is acknowledged by experts that new treatments for anxiety and depression are \u201cbadly needed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n And this is from an article in mainstream media<\/span><\/a> that has a headline that clearly promotes antidepressants. When you get into the article, you start smelling BS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is how mainstream media rolls with the pharmaceutical companies that sponsor them. The headline claims that “antidepressants do work”, but one of the experts interviewed, John Geddes, professor of epidemiological psychiatry at Oxford University, said: “We don\u2019t have any very precise treatments for depression at this point in time.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n The report goes on to say that the treatments we do have help to reduce symptoms by 50%. That’s why the headline reads: “The drugs do work.” Just not very well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This type of misleading reporting is prevalent in mainstream media and paid for academic studies<\/a>. Science has been corrupted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Other studies that promote the use of anti-depressants \u201cin the right circumstances\u201d is not that convincing either. One study compared the effectiveness of anti-depressants versus a placebo showed:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWith antidepressants: About 40 to 60 out of 100 people who took an antidepressant noticed an improvement in their symptoms within six to eight weeks.\u201d ~ NCBI<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n The same study confirms that \u201cantidepressants are usually taken for one to two years, and sometimes longer, to prevent relapses.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n That sounds like a profitable way to treat people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The NHS confirms pretty much the same number of people see improvements although acknowledges:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMost people benefit from taking antidepressants to some degree, but research suggests antidepressants may not be as effective as previously thought in cases of mild depression.\u201d ~ NHS Inform<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n What are they saying here, that patients have to have really bad anxiety before they even notice a difference that a pill makes?<\/p>\n\n\n\n I know from experience that mild depression gets worse if left untreated.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n The good news is that when you know how the mind-body connection works, you don’t need medication to treat anxiety and depression at all<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So how many patients get results using traditional methods?<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe best antidepressant had an average remission rate of 50.78%, 1.5 times higher than the average antidepressant (30.30% remission rate) and 20 times higher than the worst antidepressant.\u201d ~ The Lancet<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n To clarify, remission means you will have a \u201ctemporary diminution of severe symptoms\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So on average, 70% of people that take antidepressants don\u2019t experience any improvement in symptoms. At best, one anti-depressant will alleviate symptoms in 50% of people. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Is this why the Recovery Village says there is no cure? Or do they mean there is no cure from a conventional doctor dishing out anti-depressants?<\/p>\n\n\n\n It would appear that medication is not the answer to effectively treating anxiety and depression.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Given the results – and comments by experts – we should be questioning why anti-depressants are still the most widely used intervention. Some of the negative reporting around the ineffectiveness of anti-depressants go back 20 years or more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n So what is the alternative treatment and how can you cure depression?<\/p>\n\n\n\n The mainstream view is cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). <\/p>\n\n\n\n Talk therapy will probably deliver better results than a pill, but the results are still somewhat underwhelming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Let’s check out the results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Psychologists regard CBT as the gold standard for psycho-therapeutic treatments. It\u2019s certainly the most widely used form of psychotherapy. But is it really the most effective?<\/p>\n\n\n\n A study that compared the effectiveness and efficiency of CBT and generic counselling (talk therapy) in the treatment of depression did not see a significant improvement in patients. The conclusion of the study reads:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOutcomes for counselling and CBT in the treatment of depression were comparable. Research efforts should focus on factors other than therapy type that may influence outcomes, namely the inherent variability between services, and adopt multilevel modelling as the given analytic approach in order to capture the naturally nested nature of the implementation and delivery of psychological therapies. It is of concern that half of all patients, regardless of the type of intervention, did not show reliable improvement.\u201d ~ BMC Psychiatry<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n On a more encouraging note, the Department of Psychiatry in the UK claim that \u201cCBT offers long-term benefits for people with depression\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n But then you read the data and discover their idea of \u201clong-term\u201d is not really all that long – and the treatment includes antidepressants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe study found when CBT was given, in addition to usual care that included antidepressants, it was effective in reducing depressive symptoms and improving quality of life over the long term \u2013 on average 46 months \u2013 for patients whose depression had not responded to medication\u2026Over the course of 46 months, 43 per cent of those who had received CBT had improved, reporting at least a 50 per cent reduction in symptoms of depression, compared with 27 per cent who continued with their usual care alone.\u201d ~ Department of Psychiatry<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n So this study shows that CBT can help more people that are on anti-depressants recover – but the results are still not great.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Does that mean that CBT is better than anti-depressants? <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n Well, in the main yes. Antidepressants have shown up to a 60% improvement but they are not a proven treatment that has lasting effects. At best, they suspend symptoms. Medications masks symptoms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Having said that, it appears that CBT has short-term limitations as well. That’s because they focus on coping mechanisms which eventually loses power. CBT rarely addresses the root cause of your anxiety.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n A study in Norway<\/span><\/a> cites a comparable outcome in that 53% noted improvements and 63% had reduced effects of primary symptoms. However, the focus group of the study is the younger generations who naturally have better rates of recovery. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n The study, at least, shows there is a reason to explore CBT for depression and anxiety in younger people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hopefully, CBT treatments will not also include anti-depressants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Having said that, meta-analysis shows that the positive effects of CBT are declining – which suggests the methods being used are inadequate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Does this mean that practitioners are not being trained in CBT effectively? That\u2019s certainly how it appears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When I spoke to psychologists that provide CBT to their patients they say they use techniques such as journaling, meditation and reframing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n These can be all useful techniques, but only for short-term coping mechanisms. It would appear that CBT meditation techniques are not effective either. They use the water-down Buddhist technique of observing your thoughts and letting it go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If your CBT therapist asks you to observe your thoughts then let it go, the only thing you should be letting go of is your therapist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I asked one psychologist that provides CBT to delinquent children how she teaches her patients to observe the subconscious mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Her reply was, \u201cmy patients are ready to learn about the subconscious yet.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n What? <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n The unconscious drives 90-95% of your behaviour<\/span><\/a>. If you\u2019re not observing your instinctual drives, you will continue to think and act in the same ways, generate the same energies and have the same experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The same principle determines how you feel. If you\u2019ve got depression, it\u2019s a warning sign that you do not have any direction in your life, you lack purpose and meaning and your mind is filled with negative self-talk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A simple way to start your road to recovery is to stop doing what other people want you to do – especially if you don’t like it. One of the reasons I got depression is because I always went to the same places my friends did even though I didn’t enjoy it. I just wanted to fit in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n When you engage in activities you don’t like or you pretend to be the person you are not just to feel a sense of belonging, you will always wear a mask that hides the REAL YOU. In effect, you are burying your inner power. And with it the fulfilment and joy that deserve in life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n If this sounds like you, it’s time to try a treatment for depression that really works. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Whilst I acknowledge CBT does have some useful coping mechanisms, behavioural therapy only delivers short-term solutions. It doesn\u2019t provide a cure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You will find a cure, however, in treatments that are grounded in depth psychology and incorporate some form of energy transformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There is evidence to indicate that depth psychology is a superior approach to treating anxiety and depression to either anti-depressants, CBT or talk therapy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yet there has been a limited number of studies performed to show the efficacy of depth psychology. However, a meta-analysis<\/span><\/a> of 23 studies showed promise – it was found that improvements were notable once the treatment had ended (although the follow-up was only 9 months after).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Despite the efficacy of depth psychology, there appears to be a reluctance to admit that Jungian psychology delivers superior results over other forms of treatment. Even when studies show promising results, the researchers seem reluctant to admit it. The writers of a study in Germany and Switzerland noted:<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/mastermindcontent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/joy-900x600.jpg\")
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Are anti-depressants effective treatments for anxiety and depression?<\/b><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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