American - Educator | March 7, 1943 -
There seems little reason to prescribe anti-depressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients.
Irving Kirsch
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Perhaps anti-depressants should be best reserved for the very extreme cases and, more importantly, for those who do not respond to alternative forms of interventions.
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There seem to be many causes of depression. One cause is profound loss, grief. Economic hardship we know is linked to depression. We don't have a full picture.
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The one thing we do know is that the chemical imbalance theory - the theory that people get depressed when they don't have enough serotonin in their brain - we know that that's wrong.
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One problem I have with drug companies is that they don't make all their data public.
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Anything that instills a sense of hope will at least temporarily help treat depression.
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If you're taking an antidepressant, it's working, and you're not experiencing side effects, go on taking it. But if it's not working, or not working well enough, or if you have side effects you don't like, talk to your doctor about an alternative approach.
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