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romancandle · 10-03-2008, 07:38 AM

How soon people forget that studies like this have been performed within the past 5 years. Many studies in fact. Yeah, it's nothing new, it's nothing amazing. It's the same data slapped on a sheet and resubmitted to the public.

I personally think antidepressants are overprescribed to people who just don't need them. There is such a thing as a chemical depression and situational depression. In either case though, one would assume the best result would be to start out the patient on some sort of therapy regimine. No, that's not how society works. Some human beings [or dare I say most] in this day and age are searching for the quickest fix out there. Pills are just that. They have no time for therapy, and boy isn't it so ideal that you can take a pill that will solve your problems?

To get to the point, the article does say that antidepressants are only highly effective in people suffering from severe or endogenous depression. I don't know about the rate of efficacy of the antidepressant, but I believe it should only be used in those cases. And God do I stress the idea of therapy. I can't think of how many people wouldn't need these medications if they had proper therapy.

This study is flawed. I'm sure we have many here who have tried countless medications and then miraculously found one that worked. Can we possibly say the same for this study? That perhaps the results were flawed, because some people respond to differently to certain antidepressants than others? They only used four different antidepressants [Paxil, Prozac, Serzone, and Effexor]. How many of you out there can say that you've had to try more than four antidepressants to find one that worked? Basically, this theory they're trying to make is very difficult to prove, and even though it's been attempted before, there needs to be a peer who comes along who approaches it differently before conclusions can be made.

I'm honestly not as pissed about this as I am amused. I'm amused by the fact studies have been done on this before, and that the media is just catching wind, that the large drug companies are now feeling as if they have a reason to panic or explain themselves, and funny enough it's all over ONE STUDY that happened to get media attention.

I am pissed however that the victories that the psychiatric community has made over these years haven't been as "praised" as this.

10-03-2008, 07:38 AM	#19
romancandle And all you want is sleep/But all you get it pills Join Date: Aug 2007 I am currently:	How soon people forget that studies like this have been performed within the past 5 years. Many studies in fact. Yeah, it's nothing new, it's nothing amazing. It's the same data slapped on a sheet and resubmitted to the public. I personally think antidepressants are overprescribed to people who just don't need them. There is such a thing as a chemical depression and situational depression. In either case though, one would assume the best result would be to start out the patient on some sort of therapy regimine. No, that's not how society works. Some human beings [or dare I say most] in this day and age are searching for the quickest fix out there. Pills are just that. They have no time for therapy, and boy isn't it so ideal that you can take a pill that will solve your problems? To get to the point, the article does say that antidepressants are only highly effective in people suffering from severe or endogenous depression. I don't know about the rate of efficacy of the antidepressant, but I believe it should only be used in those cases. And God do I stress the idea of therapy. I can't think of how many people wouldn't need these medications if they had proper therapy. This study is flawed. I'm sure we have many here who have tried countless medications and then miraculously found one that worked. Can we possibly say the same for this study? That perhaps the results were flawed, because some people respond to differently to certain antidepressants than others? They only used four different antidepressants [Paxil, Prozac, Serzone, and Effexor]. How many of you out there can say that you've had to try more than four antidepressants to find one that worked? Basically, this theory they're trying to make is very difficult to prove, and even though it's been attempted before, there needs to be a peer who comes along who approaches it differently before conclusions can be made. I'm honestly not as pissed about this as I am amused. I'm amused by the fact studies have been done on this before, and that the media is just catching wind, that the large drug companies are now feeling as if they have a reason to panic or explain themselves, and funny enough it's all over ONE STUDY that happened to get media attention. I am pissed however that the victories that the psychiatric community has made over these years haven't been as "praised" as this. Last edited by romancandle : 10-03-2008 at 07:46 AM.