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Antidepressants Work No Better Than a Placebo
Matthew Whalley writes "Researchers got hold of published and unpublished data from drug companies regarding the effectiveness of the most common antidepressant drugs. Previously, when meta-analyses have been conducted on only the published data, the drugs were shown to have a clinically significant effect. However, when the unpublished data is taken into account the difference between the effects of drug and placebo becomes clinically meaningless — just a 1 or 2 point difference on a 30-point depression rating scale — except for the most severely depressed patients. Doctors do not recommend that patients come off antidepressant drugs without support, but this study is likely to lead to a rethink regarding how the drugs are licensed and prescribed."
Go be crazy somewhere else; we're all full up here.
and the room for attention starved kids is down the hall.
P.S.: Depression is a catch all diagnosis for people that simply can't cope - why we put up with you all instead of gassing you in camps continues to elude the rest of us destined to "put up" with your little tantrums and cries for affection.
Trackball users will be first against the wall.
Ya, its people deciding day after day they really don't want to be happy. That doesn't mean illusionary, but it does mean that you can decide not to be depressed.
cabin fever
I take it you're "up North." Try moving South. Not everyone can handle many cloudy days.
compounded by social phobias
Um, get over it.
Anyone can tell you that depression doesn't actually exist.
Or, moreover, sure it exists, but it isn't a clinical problem and it isn't a problem with your brain.
It is a problem with you, as a person.
And that is something that no medication will do anything to help.
Help comes from the self, and accepting that one has a problem or a deficiency of self and fixing it.
No one else is going to really help you do it - especially not the people who are trying to help you (read: trying to make money off of the problems they invent.)
Not everyone is a perfect person, but depression is just an excuse to avoid life and avoid the things you should be doing.
It is a crutch - and we as humans need less crutches.
Suicide is a total rejection of life - it is the end result of avoiding life (depression).
Maybe people should try to avoid life less, and accept its ups and downs.
We linger too much on the downs - because they stick out in our minds much more.
But even people who are "clinically depressed" are full of shit.
Everyone has the same kinds of problems as they have, yet they need medication?
No, I don't think so.
Face problems. Don't run away and hide behind drugs that cripple you in some way.
I am not a Scientologist or anything like that - but come on!
Psychology and psychiatry are there to make money, now.
They are bunk in a lot of ways, and people put too much credit on what they say.
If you need someone holding your hand all the way through life then you might as well gtfo.