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and half of the Paxil group were withdrawn to a placebo.
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And let's look at the placebo group first here.
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This is the sad news about depression.
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If you just take drugs to get out of a current episode
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and you go off of the drugs without having any kind of psychotherapy,
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your rate of relapse tends to be very high.
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So, in this group of 240, almost 80% relapsed in the first year
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after going off of the active medication.
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Again, these were people who did not get any cognitive behavioral therapy.
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Of those people who stayed on Paxil alone, about 50% relapsed.
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But of those people who got cognitive behavioral therapy,
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only about 35% relapsed.