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I want to reply here as well: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3964149/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3964149/ The study you mentio
by kirab 9y ago
I want to reply here as well:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3964149/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3964149/
The study you mentioned shows that mindfulness is overall as effective as the (best?) known other treatment options. If you take this literally you are right, there is no "benefit" in choosing mindfulness based therapy over the other options. It is "only" on par with the other known treatment options.
It is therefore a fully valid and effective choice for treatment.
- aaavl2821 9y agoi guess an analogy that could be appropriate here is to imagine there is a study that compares two interventions for treating cancer: chemotherapy as one intervention, and chemotherapy plus playing video games for several hours as another intervention. Let's say that both interventions provide the same benefit in terms of killing the tumor, helping patients live longer. Does this suggest that playing video games for several hours is an effective treatment for cancer? The control in that study was specifically designed to "unpack" mbct into its components, and then test mindfulness + other components vs just the other components. When they did that, both arms looked equal I meditate regularly and don't doubt it helps me, and I think if people actually committed to studying mindfulness rigorously they'd find great things, but it's a shame that most mindfulness research isn't that robust or rigorous