Mindfulness therapy works as well as some anti-depressant drugs in fighting depression, according to a major new study. The study—the largest-ever analysis of research on the subject—found mindfulness-based cognitive therapy helped people just as much as commonly prescribed anti-depressant drugs and that there was no evidence of any harmful effects. “It makes complete sense to me that this wonderful faculty of thinking can both get us into trouble and also get us out of trouble,” one researcher says.
”Mindfulness therapy works as well as anti-depressant drugs”
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