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| Antidepressants do work, insist top doctors as they hit back at bombshell study which found there was no 'convincing evidence' of a link between low serotonin and mental illness |
| 2022-07-24 |
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Responding to this story from a few days ago.
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| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #2 ^ Very true. pharmaceutical companies, who embraced this pop-psych explanation as a marketing assist, and with doctors who don't spend the time on a better explanation. Sums it up nicely. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2022-07-24 16:28 |
| #1 From someone with experience: "However, the medications do help a fair number of people (relatively) quickly and a lot, and a further percentage are helped partially. ... So usually, worth a try. Sometimes they do magic. But depressions are indeed different." |
| Posted by: James 2022-07-24 16:22 |