CBT helps to crack the cycle

National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) also found in 2008 that just over half (58.7 percent) of adults in the United States with a serious mental illness (SMI) received treatment for a mental health problem. Treatment rates for SMI differed across age groups, and the most common types of treatment were outpatient services and prescription medication. About 71 percent of adults who had major depression used mental health services and treatment to help with their disorder

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There are a number of treatments available which can be used to help those suffering from a mental health concern. From various medication right through to talking treatments. Antidepressants are a common form of treatment for neurotic and psychotic disorders, but talking therapies are becoming an increasingly popular method of treatment, either when used on their own or when used in conjunction with prescribed medication.

The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the over examined life can be difficult, too. Many people are turning to a relatively young branch of “talking therapy”, called Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to get them through the (day and) night. CBT, which teaches people to bypass unhelpful thoughts, has been elbowing aside the talk-about-your-childhood psychoanalysis favoured by believers in Freud and Jung. Up to 43% of all therapy courses in Britain are now CBT, and the practice is increasing: around 6,000 new therapists have been trained since 2007 and CBT absorbs much public funding. In 2012, £213m went on a National Health Service program delivering CBT, while £172m was spent on all other forms of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. The growing popularity of CBT was consolidated in 2007, when the government adopted the treatment as standard. Three things had swayed it. The new practice had accumulated a body of evidence proving it worked (students of Freud and Jung have been slower to move from couch to lab). It was very good at getting patients back to the office: a 1997 study found people with psychological problems had significantly higher employment rates after CBT than after traditional psychoanalysis. It was also speedy, getting results after just ten one-hour sessions (psychoanalysis can, expensively, take a lifetime). So CBT therapists were trained up and given all the plum NHS jobs, consigning other therapies largely to private practice.