A review of four studies on the effectiveness of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT), a recently developed class-based program designed to prevent relapse, suggests that MBCT may have an additive effect when provided with the usual care in patients who have had three or more depressive episodes, although the usual care did not include antidepressant treatment or any psychotherapy, and the improvement observed may have reflected non-specific or placebo effects. Feigned depression or anxiety occurs when a person deliberately pretends to be severely depressed or anxious, or when a person makes herself believe that she is depressed or anxious when really she is not. This could occur when a solider is released from the military and is trying to receive revenue for post-traumatic depression or anxiety, when a person wants to give up and receive medication, hospitalization or just attention, or when a person ignores the true reason or cause behind his sadness or anxiety. In order to help detect a true disorder, or feigning of a disorder, numerous tests…
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