Depression

Therapy is a great way to treat depression. Studies have shown that therapy can improve the effectiveness of medicinal treatment, but is also a completely viable way of addressing depression. A good therapist can help someone suffering from depression to pull themselves out of it and to begin a new, fruitful, happy life.

1. Can be non-invasive

Often people with depression desperately want to seek help for their depression, but do not want to be pressured into taking medication. Though therapy paired with medication has been shown to be far more effective than either of these treatments alone, therapy alone is extremely helpful at treating depression. A good therapist will give the patient a choice in taking medication, provided it is appropriate for the situation, and if the patient chooses to refrain will offer therapy that helps the patient instead.

2. Addresses root causes

Depression is often spurred on by a single event or by a combination of specific issues. A therapist can address those issues, and look to work through them so as to avoid future cases of depression caused by the same problems. Furthermore, a therapist can help suggest ways to structure one’s life and stay away from problems that promote depression.

3. More personal ways of coming out of depression

A good therapist will be able to structure a program for rising from depression in a way that is highly personalized to the depressed person. Therapy can be extremely useful in theory, but if the client does not feel as though the a plan will not work for him or her, it’s moot. The great thing about a therapist is that he or she can structure a plan with the client that both agree to be effective and are willing to try.

4. Therapy can change ideas

One of the worst parts of depression is in how it causes its sufferers to feel hopeless and overly critical, as well as constantly pessimistic. If depression is only snowballing because of a person’s negative feelings and opinions, it can be extremely hard to feel happy with the negative ideas still resounding. A therapist can help the client restructure patterns of thought so that the rise out of depression doesn’t lead back into a fall. Therapy can give someone a more positive worldview which can, along with other things, fight off depression.

5. Makes personal connections

Depression often works best in isolating its sufferers and making them feel hopeless. For many, a therapist is more than just a paid professional. A therapist is a confidante and can be a friend, and can reduce the feelings of isolation by encouraging the sufferer to talk over issues. A therapist, moreover, has training in how best to approach problems, and can offer therapy in a friendly, comfortable manner.

Therapy Doubts

Magnet therapy involves the idea that placing a magnet on a painful part of the idea can actually reduce pain or help heal diseases. This is absolutely true to some extent; pulsed electromagnetic fields have been studied substantially in depth and have been demonstrated to help heal some bone fractures. Therapists who profess the use of static magnet therapy to reduce pain, however, may be seriously flawed in their experiences. The one thing that magnet therapy does offer, however, is a convincing placebo for people who believe it and therapists who are willing to administer it.

1. Many of the positive studies are flawed

There are two main studies that most magnet therapists use to promote magnet therapy. Both of these studies, had somewhat flawed experiment processes, including significant discrepancies between the placebo group and the magnet therapy group, and some manipulation of statistics and standard deviations to produce the most favorable numbers.

2. Plenty of studies disagree

A number of studies by proper researchers and therapists have brought up results that suggest that magnet therapists are phonies. Studies conducted by the Mayo Clinic, New York College of Podiatric Medicine, and the VA Medical Center in Prescott, Arizona all came up with results that showed that magnet therapy treatment worked no better than a placebo treatment.

3. Circulation increases are baseless

The first thing to note is that if magnet therapy increased circulation, placing a magnet on the skin should make it red from attracted blood under the skin. In addition, a study published in 2002 showed that magnet therapy failed to increase blood flow. Additionally, it suggested that magnet therapists using the brand of magnet advertised to increase this blood flow were, perhaps, misled.

4. Several cases have found against magnet therapy

One of the most prominent magnet producers in the US that produces magnets specifically for therapy uses has been repeatedly penalized by the state of Texas, where they are located, for making unsubstantiated claims. In addition, a number of other magnet therapists nationwide have been subject to penalties and fines for making claims that were not backed by fact, or for misleading people into thinking that magnet therapists could help reduce pain.

5. Most magnets don’t produce a magnetic field

Most magnet therapists work off the premise that the magnetic field of a magnet is what creates all of these wonderful benefits. In fact, these therapists are incorrect. Electromagnetic magnets certainly do produce a magnetic field and have been shown to have mild benefits, but static magnets, which these therapists use and sell, produce absolutely no magnetic field in or under the skin to speak of, and so cannot affect the body.