will antidepressant more likely help or make things more complicated?

Booted
Mon, 10 May 2010 23:20:48 +0000

I’ve never really understood why people are more afraid of antidepressants than other medicine.



Mainly because they are not scientifically proven to treat anything. We can see/detect that somebody has diabetes and we can see scientifically that insulin works for this disease. Psychotropic drugs don’t work like this, at our current level of scientific understanding, we cannot physically see mental illness (other than degenerative) and due to that we cannot directly treat it. So we are forced to use unscientific methods, like feeding rats SSRI’s and grinding them up, then checking serotonin levels.

It comes down to if you want your doctor to be a scientist or a friend. Most people prefer the former, and thats the reason people are skeptical.

All current scientific research shows that antidepressants are no more effective than a placebo in a number of double blind trials. We can dance around and say that they most certainly work due to personal experience, but such is not objective. Subjectivity is not science. Im sure somewhere there are studies which show they do work, but its not current. If the drugs work for you stick with em, if not try something else.

There are other things people can try other than prescription drugs. Talk Therapy is nearly 72% effective according to the last time I checked with little chance of relapse.