9 Life Changing Treatments for Treatment Resistant Depression

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Therapy in a Nutshell -Emma McAdam

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🗓️ 13 March 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Intensive treatments for Treatment Resistant Depression, Anxiety or PTSD When you’ve tried two or three or six treatments for your depression, anxiety, or PTSD and nothing helps, you might feel even more hopeless, like a fulfilling life is not possible for you. But I have good news for you. There are literally 500–five hundred treatments for depression. We’re talking treatments for severe forms of depression, anxiety, and PTSD. And most of them are surprisingly effective. So let’s explore 9 interventions that science has shown to improve treatment resistant mental health conditions–and at the end I’ll share what hasn’t been proven to work. Some of these might be considered last-ditch efforts to treat treatment-resistant mental health conditions, but if you’ve been there, you know how desperate you feel and why it might be worth talking with your psychiatrist about these. Looking for affordable online counseling? My sponsor, BetterHelp, connects you to a licensed professional from the comfort of your own home. Try it now for 10% off your first month: https://betterhelp.com/therapyinanutshell Learn more in one of my in-depth mental health courses: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com Support my mission on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/therapyinanutshell Sign up for my newsletter: https://www.therapyinanutshell.com Check out my favorite self-help books: https://kit.co/TherapyinaNutshell/best-self-help-books Therapy in a Nutshell and the information provided by Emma McAdam are solely intended for informational and entertainment purposes and are not a substitute for advice, diagnosis, or treatment regarding medical or mental health conditions. Although Emma McAdam is a licensed marriage and family therapist, the views expressed on this site or any related content should not be taken for medical or psychiatric advice. Always consult your physician before making any decisions related to your physical or mental health. In therapy I use a combination of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Systems Theory, positive psychology, and a bio-psycho-social approach to treating mental illness and other challenges we all face in life. The ideas from my videos are frequently adapted from multiple sources. Many of them come from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, especially the work of Steven Hayes, Jason Luoma, and Russ Harris. The sections on stress and the mind-body connection derive from the work of Stephen Porges (the Polyvagal theory), Peter Levine (Somatic Experiencing) Francine Shapiro (EMDR), and Bessel Van Der Kolk. I also rely heavily on the work of the Arbinger Institute for my overall understanding of our ability to choose our life's direction. And deeper than all of that, the Gospel of Jesus Christ orients my personal worldview and sense of security, peace, hope, and love https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/comeuntochrist/believe If you are in crisis, please contact the National Suicide Prevention Hotline at https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org or 1-800-273-TALK (8255) or your local emergency services. Copyright Therapy in a Nutshell, LLC

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, today we're going to be talking about nine little-known treatment options for treatment-resistant depression.
0:05.5	These are some really powerful interventions that can help when you've tried a lot of other options like medication and therapy.
0:12.5	But as part of this episode, I'm going to be telling you about medical interventions, and I want to make sure to be really clear.
0:17.9	The information I'm giving you should not be intended as a substitute
0:21.1	for working with your doctor or your psychiatrist. So never take the information that you hear
0:27.4	on the internet from me or anyone else as being more important than the individualized guidance
0:33.8	that you receive from your personal medical and mental health providers. Always seek the
0:38.7	advice of your therapist or your psychiatrist before you make big changes to your health. And I think
0:44.7	this is important because what we're going to be talking about today are actually very effective
0:48.5	treatments. As all treatments do, they do include some risks. So make sure to consult your doctor before making any
0:56.3	changes to your physical or mental health treatment plan. Okay, really excited to jump in. Let's go.
1:02.7	So when you've tried two or three or six treatments for your depression, anxiety or PTSD, and nothing helps, You might feel even more hopeless, like a fulfilling life is not possible for you.
1:15.6	But I have good news. There are literally 500 treatments for depression. Like we're talking treatments for severe forms of depression, anxiety, and PTSD.
1:26.6	Most of them are surprisingly effective.
1:29.3	So let's explore nine interventions that science has shown
1:33.3	to improve treatment-resistant mental health conditions.
1:36.3	And at the end, I'll share what hasn't been proven to work.
1:39.3	Some of these treatments might be considered last-ditch efforts
1:42.3	to treat treatment-resistant mental health conditions like depression,
1:46.0	but if you've been there, you know how desperate you feel and why it might be worth talking with your psychiatrist about these options.
1:53.0	Okay, I think a lot of people think I'm exaggerating when I say there are 500 treatment options for depression, but I'm serious.
2:02.6	In fact, I built this chart to show you how I would move through options with the client.
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