Is psychotherapy + antidepressant medication used when having a "severe" depression?

Question

Because I understand that medication Or psychotherapy alone is for mild, moderate depression. But Both are used together when the state of the depression/anxiety is severe.
Is this somewhat true?

Of course severe depression causing Hospitalization is a another matter.

Answer 1

It is not recommended to treat mild depression with medication at all, psychotherapy should be tried first.
Studies on combination of meds and therapy vs one of them alone have produced different results - most agree that therapy alone for severe depression is not sufficient but it is not clear if there is a clinically significant difference between meds alone vs the combination of the two.
I think therapy plays a large role in relapse prevention as you can learn coping strategies to deal with first onset of possible depression relapse.

Answer 2

It all depends on what the doctor or therapist thinks is best. A lot of times people with severe clinical depression will have a combination of treatments, including medication, behavioral and/or cognitive therapy. But even with mild or moderate depression people can have this combination of treatments too.

Answer 3

psychotherapy AND medication is the best and most effective treatmet for almost all degrees of depression

Answer 4

it depends on the person, their symptoms, the doctor, therapist, etc.
what is so unique about mental illnesses, is that there is no one answer for everybody.
there will never be one "cure-all"

but yes, that combination can be used for severe depression