There are ways out of depression – without medication. The experienced psychotherapist Thorsten Padberg presents an empathetic case for why antidepressants aren't the solution and for what alternatives exist. Because for a long time something has been wrong with how society deals with suffering. Anyone who grieves for more than two weeks might be considered as being depressed. But isn't grief an appropriate reaction to the loss of a loved one? Does it really have to be treated with medication and years of therapy?
In conversation with experts and on the basis of a number of studies, Thorsten Padberg shows that psychotropic drugs have mostly no more of an effect than placebos. Depression has no perceptible bodily causes, neither hormones nor genes, nor the brain.
The causes lie mostly in the life of the person affected with it. Separation, death, job loss make us brood, despair or grieve. Depression has social causes that should not be ignored. Those affected need to be supported to take charge of their lives again. An arousing message directed not only at psychiatrists and therapists. Those suffering from depression and their relatives will find new perspectives here on their suffering and on life.
Thorsten Padberg wants to embolden readers through expert insights as well as numerous case studies from his own practice – no one has to suffer all of their life and swallow pills.
