Psychiatry Exposed

[Rayaan]

Of course. Antidepressants are prescribed for people who are depressed to begin with. You can't save the whole world, boss. But that doesn't mean you sit there doing nothing, either.

But are antidepressants actually any effective against depression at all? Some studies say yes, while others suggest that it's most likely just a placebo effect. And yet some studies indicate that they make one's mental conditions even worse than before. So the whole antidepressant thing is very sketchy.

There’s a group of people for whom antidepressants in general work awfully well, but there’s also a group for whom they don’t work well and they can become either violent or suicidal. The problem again comes back to the role of the doctor. If doctors can’t see that drugs may be good and may be bad, that they can be useful and problematic — if they aren’t experts and can’t handle a bit of complexity — they’re going to go out of business.

http://healthland.time.com/2012/03/28/mi...rmageddon/