Experimental depression treatment is nearly 80% effective in controlled study
While depression can certainly be caused by chemical imbalance and not because of how your unconscious mind impacts&#x2F;limits your experience of life, I took the approach that exploring my subconscious through therapy was the way to get out.<p>For me it worked very well and I think the journey is an amazing one to go on. Building from the ground up and understanding all the foundations within. I always wonder about treatments which don&#x27;t have this benefit, although the results in terms of lifestyle change sound extremely positive.<p>One of the hardest parts of therapy is diagnosis of what to work on. Even though an issue will be &quot;presenting&quot; itself clearly, it can often be a bit of a decoy. For example, a lack of self-esteem is often a useful derivative of an unconscious fear of upsetting others. Low self-esteem =&gt; avoid situations&#x2F;behaviours that upset others.<p>During therapy I found dreams, when analysed outside of the &quot;conventional&quot; Freudian&#x2F;Jungian frameworks provided a simple and accurate method of reaching the root diagnosis (the fear of upsetting others vs. the decoy issue of low self-esteem).<p>I got a bit obsessed by the topic and wrote a paper on it which can be downloaded here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;psyarxiv.com&#x2F;k6trz" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;psyarxiv.com&#x2F;k6trz</a><p>And was discussed on HN here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19143590" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19143590</a>