My favorite part of the article about why we should keep using antidepressants:
"Many commonly used medicines were used for decades before we understood their mechanisms of action: from aspirin to morphine to penicillin. Knowing they worked provided the impetus for establishing how they worked; and this knowledge generated new treatments."
Given that studies show that anti-depressants don't really work better than placebo, not as compelling argument as this statement would be for, IDK, Ivermectin?
Clown world. Links below.
Some depression is real. The problem is that it is way over-diagnosed. My grandmother fell into a hormonal depression in the early 1930s, a few years after having a baby at age 42. This was way before anti-depressants came along. She spent the rest of her life in a mental institution. Diet, exercise and a spiritual life are a safe and effective way to alleviate some of the symptoms. There is already a stigma associated with depression that some who really do suffer don't come forward. Articles such as this can be helpful, but also damaging.
Agree. I suspect that the specific chemical imbalance they believe was erroneously linked relate to seratonin or dopamine but IDK. The drugs they are talking about are mostly reuptake if I am not mistaken. I can speak from my own experience that hormonal changes are definitely mood altering.
Most definitely! It runs in my family for sure.