Listening to faith as a balm for depression. (research indicates that religious faith quickens recovery for mild to moderate depression)

From: Science News | Date: April 18, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

Antidepressant drugs, such as Prozac, garner much scientific attention as potent depression-busters, as does short-term psychotherapy aimed at altering self-destructive thinking habits. Now, a new study calls attention to a more traditional form of mood raising--religious devotion.

Deeply held religious faith hastens recovery from mild to moderate depression, regardless of treatment with drugs or talk therapy, according to psychiatrist Harold G. Koenig of Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C., and his colleagues.

In a group of elderly people suffering from ...

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