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Originally Posted by zinco14532323
Vital I still really think you should find another article other than this one about antidepressants. This article doesn't say anything about why they work or don't work. All it talks about is how they found big pharma hiding studies that didn't benefit them. This was all at the original clinical trial phase and they only last six to eight weeks. Again it is real world experience with a med that counts. That has always been true with all meds. Not much is known about any med until it is on the market for ten years. Early clinical trials for approval only tell you so much.
Why Antidepressants Don't Work for Treating Depression*|*Mark Hyman, MD |
Hello zinco,
I like citing that article because from the point of view of a depressed person looking for help, just the fact that antidepressants mainly don't work and are dangerous is already enough to conclude that it makes no sense to start a treatment of depression this way. If mediation, for example, would resolve your depression, it would be a foolish mistake to risk taking these drugs. Unfortunately, we see stories here where someone sees an advertisement for antidepressants, asks their MD for a prescription based on that and actually gets the drug that way. If there was a multi-billion dollar meditation industry with an advertising budget that same person would be much better off.
Sometimes I feel like I should point to something like this
that points out many dangers in detail and is, as far as I know, not at all dismissible.
I also think that antidepressants, ECT and even bilateral cingulotomy are not categorically dismissible either, certainly not by me. For each of these treatments, I have seen people, who I believe, say that that particular treatment really saved their lives. In the case of antidepressants, for instance, I've seen someone say that they were absolutely desperate and suicidal and searching for the right drug with her doctor for six years. After six years, she finally found something that worked. Her depression was resolved, she slowly came off the drug and now she is fine. I believe her story too. I've seen similar testimonials about ECT and brain surgery. My point is not that these things should never be used. I am just saying something very simple: try the healthy, safe things first.
- vital