Charity urges new remedy for depression "Mindfulness-based therapy could be helping to prevent thousands of people from relapsing into depression every year," said Dr Andrew McCulloch, chief executive of the Mental Health Foundation. "This would have huge knock-on benefits both socially and economically, making it a sensible treatment to be making available, even at a time when money is short within the NHS."Dr Jonty Heaversedge, a south London GP and one of the BBC's Street Doctors, said he had himself sought out a Buddhist centre to learn to meditate to manage his own stress, but felt uncomfortable to be recommending it to his patients in case they thought he was promoting religion.He sees patients who regularly go...

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