BEATING BACK THE BLUES

摘要

Parnel wickham wasn't getting much comfort from traditional psychotherapy. In the late 1990s her husband of 36 years walked out on her, her mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's and she fell on financial hard times. "What happened in my childhood or 10 years ago—that's gone. I wanted to know how to manage today," says Wickham, now 62. Eventually, she signed on for a new approach developed by researchers at Duke University to treat depression in adults over 55. Her therapists encouraged her to meet new people and to seek the company of friends whenever upsetting thoughts haunted her.