Comments on: Non-Pharmacological Options for Managing Depression: What the Pharmaceutical Companies Will Never Tell You http://www.pharmatherapist.com/2009/10/non-pharmacological-options-for-managing-depression-what-the-pharmaceutical-companies-will-never-tell-you/ Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 20 Jul 2010 10:58:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Chris Fedorka Tomalin http://www.pharmatherapist.com/2009/10/non-pharmacological-options-for-managing-depression-what-the-pharmaceutical-companies-will-never-tell-you/comment-page-1/#comment-43 Chris Fedorka Tomalin Sat, 26 Dec 2009 17:41:09 +0000 http://www.pharmatherapist.com/?p=740#comment-43 Joe, I recently attended your seminar in Princeton. I found it to be so helpful. I have a private counseling and mediation practice. i would be interested to read more about drug interactions with addicts who have addictions to heroine and cocaine. Would you be able to address more on those topics in newsletters? Thanks Chris Tomalin Joe,
I recently attended your seminar in Princeton. I found it to be so helpful. I have a private counseling and mediation practice.
i would be interested to read more about drug interactions with addicts who have addictions to heroine and cocaine.

Would you be able to address more on those topics in newsletters?
Thanks
Chris Tomalin

]]> By: Donald http://www.pharmatherapist.com/2009/10/non-pharmacological-options-for-managing-depression-what-the-pharmaceutical-companies-will-never-tell-you/comment-page-1/#comment-41 Donald Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:03:31 +0000 http://www.pharmatherapist.com/?p=740#comment-41 Depends how you define the term treatment - Mosby's Medical Dictionary, 8th edition: 1 the care and management of a patient to combat, ameliorate, or prevent a disease, disorder, or injury. 2 a method of combating, ameliorating, or preventing a disease, disorder, or injury. Active or curative treatment is designed to cure; palliative treatment is directed to relieve pain and distress; prophylactic treatment is for the prevention of a disease or disorder; causal treatment focuses on the cause of a disorder; conservative treatment avoids radical measures and procedures; empiric treatment uses methods shown to be beneficial by experience; rational treatment is based on a knowledge of a disease process and the action of the measures used. Treatment may be pharmacologic, using drugs; surgical, involving operative procedures; or supportive, building the patient's strength. It may be specific for the disorder, or symptomatic to relieve symptoms without effecting a cure. Depends how you define the term treatment – Mosby’s Medical Dictionary, 8th edition:
1 the care and management of a patient to combat, ameliorate, or prevent a disease, disorder, or injury.
2 a method of combating, ameliorating, or preventing a disease, disorder, or injury. Active or curative treatment is designed to cure; palliative treatment is directed to relieve pain and distress; prophylactic treatment is for the prevention of a disease or disorder; causal treatment focuses on the cause of a disorder; conservative treatment avoids radical measures and procedures; empiric treatment uses methods shown to be beneficial by experience; rational treatment is based on a knowledge of a disease process and the action of the measures used. Treatment may be pharmacologic, using drugs; surgical, involving operative procedures; or supportive, building the patient’s strength. It may be specific for the disorder, or symptomatic to relieve symptoms without effecting a cure.

]]> By: John Zeisel http://www.pharmatherapist.com/2009/10/non-pharmacological-options-for-managing-depression-what-the-pharmaceutical-companies-will-never-tell-you/comment-page-1/#comment-37 John Zeisel Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:00:59 +0000 http://www.pharmatherapist.com/?p=740#comment-37 Joe Why do you use the term "approaches" rather than the term "treatment" for nonpharmacologial intgerventions? If light, exercise, and diet reduce the symptoms of depression as well as or better than pharmaceutical "treatmetns" are these three not also "treatments." See my book--I'm Still Here: A Breakthrough Approach to Understanding Someone Living with Alzheimer's--for the details of this argument, including definitions and examples from nonpharmacological Alzheimer's treatments. John Zeisel Joe
Why do you use the term “approaches” rather than the term “treatment” for nonpharmacologial intgerventions? If light, exercise, and diet reduce the symptoms of depression as well as or better than pharmaceutical “treatmetns” are these three not also “treatments.” See my book–I’m Still Here: A Breakthrough Approach to Understanding Someone Living with Alzheimer’s–for the details of this argument, including definitions and examples from nonpharmacological Alzheimer’s treatments. John Zeisel

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