Statistics indicate that depressed patients are more likely to become ill than are normal people.

统计表明抑郁的患者比正常人更可能得病。

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While they sound efficient and cost-saving, a recent study reports that they are not effective, primarily because depressed patients are not likely to engage with them or stick with them.

虽然它们听起来很高效而且节约成本，但最近的一项研究表明，它们并不有效，主要是因为抑郁症患者与之接触的可能性低，也难以坚持下去。

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Beck thought depressed patients could be helped if therapists could challenge these irrational beliefs.

Beck认为如果治疗师可以纠正这些不合理的信念，被压抑的病人会有所好转。

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Dr.Sotsky says some moderately depressed patients could still benefit from antidepressants, but his study showed that many others could do just as well with exercise,talk therapy, support groups or self help.

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Psychiatrist and bioengineer Karl Deisseroth sees depressed patients at a Stanford University clinic every week.

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By late 1996 Merck began human tests of its leading compound, called MK-869, in depressed patients.

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He began with 40 depressed patients who had been successfully lifted from their depression by a night without sleep.

ECONOMIST: People, like all living things, are four dimensional