Antidepressants are No Better than Sugar Pills? Well...

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Thursday, March 06, 2008
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Antidepressants in the SSRI family don't appear to be any more effective than a placebo in treating any but the most severely depressed people. That's the conclusion of a study published last week in the Public Library of Science Medicine. The study analyzed trial results, both published and ...

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JENNIFER TURNER
Thursday, March 13, 2008 at 12:30 PM
HI, I JUST WANTED TO SAY THAT I GO TO A CLINIC, AND HAVE NO MEDICAL INSURANCE, MY DR. THERE, PUT ME ON ZOLOFT AND IT HAS HELPED ME SO MUCH. I AM TAKING SEVERAL MEDS. AND I GET THEM AT THE CLINIC, OTHERWISE, NO WAY COULD I AFFORD THEM. SO I GUESS WHAT I,M TRYING TO SAY, I CANT GO TO THERAPY OR COUNCELERS...SO, I TAKE THE ANTI-DEPRESSANT. THIS IS NOT QUITE WHAT I WANTED TO SAY BUT IT,S THE BEST I CAN DO TODAY.....JENNIFER

re: YOUR POST
Deborah Gray
Tuesday, March 18, 2008 at 03:50 PM

Hi Jennifer,

The important thing is that you are feeling better. The optimal treatment is a combo of medication and therapy, it's true, but a lot of people can't afford therapy.

re: re: YOUR POST
JENNIFER TURNER
Tuesday, March 18, 2008 at 05:27 PM
HI, YES ITS ALL TOO TRUE THAT THE PEOPLE WHO MAY NEED IT MOST ARE THE ONES WITH NO MEDICAL INSURANCE, OR, MONEY TO PAY FOR THERAPY. I HAVE MY GOOD DAYS AND THE BAD ONES, WHICH TODAY, HAS BEEN VERY BAD. I CONSIDER MYSELF BLESSED THAT I CAN GO TO A CLINIC THAT HAS A SLIDING SCALE, IT GOES BY YOUR INCOME, ONLY MY HUSBAND HAS INCOME, AND THEY GO BY THAT TO DETERMINE HOW MUCH I HAVE TO PAY. I WILL BE ABLE TO GET SOCIAL SECURITY NEXT YEAR. WHAT I NEED IS MEDICARE, NOW, I FOUND OUT I HAVE DIABETIS, I HAVE CATARACS ON BOTH EYES,AND I AM AT HIGH RISK FOR COLON CANCER. NO WONDER I AM SO DEPRESSED. GOD BLESS YOU JENNIFER

Only six weeks?
Amanda
Thursday, March 13, 2008 at 04:13 PM
I think that it is interesting that they only studied trials of six weeks duration. The instructions right on the prozac packet say that it can take this long for an effect to be noticed. To my mind, that makes the conclusions of this study even less useful.

re: Only six weeks?
Deborah Gray
Tuesday, March 18, 2008 at 03:51 PM
That was definitely the main problem I had with the study. Six weeks is really a very short amount of time in depression treatment.