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There are absolutely ways to treat depression without drugs or hospitalization. The most effective method would be any number of varying therapies, including cognitive behavioral therapy.
"Pathological lying" is a symptom and not a diagnosable disorder in and of itself. The symptom might bring you down one of any number of paths diagnostically. In general, Cognitive/Behavioral Therapy, Reality Therapy or Dialectic Behavioral Therapy may be of some help. These are not the only possibilities. Med's would not have any effect on the symptom, but med's might be useful with whatever underlying disorders might be operating, depending on what they might be.
Cognitive-behavioral therapy is effective for a wide range of mental health issues, including anxiety, depression, phobias, and post-traumatic stress disorder. It helps individuals identify and change negative thought patterns and behaviors that contribute to their problems.
An integrative therapist, using a personalized approach that combines cognitive-behavioral and humanistic therapies with medication management and lifestyle adjustments to address the client's needs comprehensively.
Common treatments for mental illness are psychotherapy, cognitive therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, group therapy, psychodynamic therapy, psychoanalysis, and the administration of psychotropic medications.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and medication. If you're all hardcore about not using medication, ask yourself if you would treat bipolar disorder with medication? If the answer is yes, you would certainly do the same for ADD. They are neurological disorders, not behavioral or psychological. You can't train the brain to increase the stimulation of the gland between the two hemispheres of the brain. Don't put someone through therapy if you're not going to offer the medication in addition. It can do more harm than good, long-term.
Most colleges require some kind of liberal arts curriculum no matter what your major is. Once you get to grad school, where you would focus on behavioral therapy, they don't have those requirements.
There is no set length of time. It would depend on the severity and specific disorder and on the person treating that disorder.
Economics conceptualizes a world populated by calculating. In traditional economics it ignores all the behaviors studied. However, behavioral economics or behavioral fiance studies the effects of social, cognitive and emotional factors of the economic decisions of others. Therefore, this subcategory would be considered a behavioral science rather than a social science.