Trying to decide what online mental health treatment programs to use can be difficult. There seem to be so many of them! Which one will be easiest to use? What style is best? Should I choose something specific for the problem or something more general?
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Antidepressants all aim to do the same thing – make depression (and anxiety) better by adjusting the concentrations of chemicals (neurotransmitters) in the brain. Subsets of antidepressants act on different chemicals - serotonin in the case of the SSRIs (serotonin reuptake inhibitors), noradrenaline and serotonin in the case of the SNRIs (serotonin and noradrenaline reuptake inhibitors) and various mixes of serotonin, noradrenaline and dopamine in the case of the other subsets of drugs (tricyclics, monoamine oxidase inhibitors etc). Within each group of
Maybe it will help to put those e-mental health resources into these kinds of categories too.
The most obvious division is according to
Treatment programs, whilst having a lot in common, have a number of differences as well.
Let’s look at the Australian evidence-based programs. They have in common that they are:
They are also:
It’s those “mostly”s that cause us trouble!
We’ve developed a table that might help. Click here to access the table. It’s
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