To what extent is the change in the client's severity of depression reflected in his/her score. My client told me that she felt "much better" within a week, but her score in the checklist dropped by one point only. How can this be explained?
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Psychotherapy and antidepressants do not affect the cause of depression. Antidepressants act as a sedative medication, for a time they can distract from depression. Psychotherapy helps to adapt to anxiety and panic, but does not eliminate them completely. The client said that she felt much better for various reasons: she could not accurately assess the changes; maybe it will be better later, and now I will say in advance that I am better; something happened and maybe this improvement and so on. It is difficult for the client to catch changes when there are no such changes, therefore the client can begin to draw conclusions and analysis independently. Psychotherapy is an attempt to adapt to depression. The cause of depression is a complex transdisciplinary phenomenon, the elimination of which is not currently the responsibility of psychiatry.
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