Mindfulness keeps depression at bay as effectively as drugs.

Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy that aims to change the way people think and feel about their experiences could be an alternative to antidepressant treatment, a study suggests.
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Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy that aims to change the way people think and feel about their experiences could be an alternative to antidepressant treatment, a study suggests.
Researchers from the Universities of Oxford, Plymouth and Exeter and King’s College London compared mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) with maintenance antidepressant medication for reducing the risk of relapse in depression.
The two-year trial involved 424 adults who were taking long-term antidepressants. Of the participants, 212 slowly came off their antidepressants and received MBCT.
The results, published in the Lancet,
show that MBCT is no more effective than long-term antidepressants, but it offers similar protection against depressive relapse, with no significant difference in cost.
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