Jas/Jan,
I am pleased to hear that NSR has been helpful for you, and that you are using it as part of an overall treatment plan under medical supervision. This is the right way to go for those with affective (mood) disorders.
The experience of NSR meditators has shown that NSR improves or makes bearable a wide range of medical conditions, confirming the beneficial effects on disease experienced by TM meditators over the last 50 years. Unfortunately, there are other techniques available today that promise everything to everyone, playing on our hopes. NSR is unique in many ways, and one of those ways is that we do not offer our technique as a panacea, only as an effective means of stress relief. Ours is not a "New Age" or pseudo-scientific technique, but one that is practical, proven, and scientifically validated.
Diagnosed mood disorders are clinical conditions, comparable in some ways with such long-term physical diseases as diabetes. See, for example,
http://www.clevelandclinicmeded.com/medicalpubs/diseasemanagement/psychiatry/depression/depression.htm and the list of physiological causes of major depression given at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinical_depression#Physiological.
To expect NSR to improve mood disorders quickly and identically among all people suffering from them would be unrealistic. What we can expect is some relief from the symptoms during our practice sessions, and improvement in various areas of our life over time as we continue to practice NSR regularly twice a day. There will always be more than enough relief from NSR to justify its practice, but the specific results will vary from person to person.
David Spector
Natural Stress Relief/USA