Thank you for posting the article - it was very interesting. I must admit I've never trusted anti-depressants. I take prozac - and i do feel better for it but I think a lot of that is down to the Placebo effect - just knowing i've taken my pills makes me feel better.

There is also a great article in this month's 'Scientific American Mind' Magazine about depression and a theory developing about it's evolutionary origins.

It's wonderful that we are getting more to the core of what depression is and why it occurs and perhaps like any other illness treating the symptoms of depression (which technically is all anti-depressants do) will not make the illness itself go away or stop it from reccuring. Perhaps the only way to tackle it, is to stop masking the problem so we can work out what's causing it in the first place.

That being said, I'm off to take my prozac!