Alternative depression treatment involves no drugs and is working

ScienceDaily - Depression Treatment: Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy as Effective as Anti-Depressant Medication, study suggests

Developed in 2002 by a team of doctors to try to give effective long-term treatments to depression that didn't involve drugs, MBCT (Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy) was used with a randomized sample of individuals diagnosed with depression, then compared to a control group who continued with normal treatments that included pill-medication. After 15 months, only 47% experienced a relapse, compared to the control group, of which 60% experienced a relapse. MBCT is more cost effective since it can be taught by one psychologist to groups of people, who then practice at home without supervision. It teaches meditation and cognitive skills to work through problems, not dwell on the future or the past but the present, and is mostly based on buddhist practices.