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.
Dr. David Burns discussed in his book "When Panic Attacks" how the chemical imbalance was invented by pharmaceutical companies to sell antidepressants. He also discussed how antidepressants have the same effectiveness rate as placebos.
His book was published in 2006.
The real cure for a cognitive disorder is cognition.
I was suspicious of antidepressants in the 90s when suddenly everyone "needed" them.