Depression (15,168 members)

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Effectiveness 161 Depression Treatments Compared Hover over each dot to see what treatment it represents. Popularity

This infographic is based on a total of 36,728 treatment effectiveness ratings.

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Notes

x-axis = fraction of respondents who tried a given treatment
y-axis = average rated effectiveness of a given treatment
vertical blue line = average fraction of respondents who tried each treatment
horizontal blue line = average rated effectivenss of all treatments

Treatments in the upper-left quadrant have below-average usage, but above-average effectiveness, so presumably more people should be trying these. Those in the lower-right quadrant have above-average usage but below-average effectiveness, so presumably fewer people should be using these.