Posted by bhodges on June 8, 2004, at 12:56:44
Hi,
It has been a while since I posted but I was wondering if I could ask for input with our ongoing poll on depression treatments on my website Remedyfind?A little background. Remedyfind is a free, non-commercial and unbiased site (not sponsored by any drug companies etc.) that lets individuals rate the effectiveness of the treatments they have used for specific health conditions. I started it 3 years ago to try to find help with treatments for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (which I’ve had for some 20 years). After doing the CFS section I realized the same approach could also work for other chronic health conditions (like mood and anxiety disorders, auto-immune conditions etc.), and so the site has now grown to cover 25 conditions.
Obviously everyone is different, and what works for one person with depression won’t necessarily work for another, but my hope is that certain trends might show themselves over time, and after hundreds or thousands of parent / patient ratings. In the future we will be adding features that allow users to view ratings according to specific diagnoses and subtypes, as well as according to gender, age etc.. In the meantime, members say that it is simply helpful to hear other parent / patient accounts of what has, or hasn’t, worked for them. The site is free and members can be as anonymous as they would like – you choose your own member name and your contact information is not shared with anyone.
If you have a few minutes to share some of your personal treatment experiences – good, bad or ugly - by submitting ratings, it would be greatly appreciated. The larger the pool of treatment experiences we can build, the more helpful the site will be to all of us.
Many thanks,
Brett Hodges
Founder / EditorHere is the address of the RemedyFind Depression section (to see all the available treatments click on the “All Remedies” heading)
http://www.remedyfind.com/hc-Depression.asp(To give you an idea of how users have rated treatment to date, here is the current “top 10” list.)
Top patient-rated Depression treatments (with more than 50 ratings)
(As of June 8, 2004. The first number is the averaged rating (0 = poorest; 10 = best). The number in parenthesis is the number of ratings the treatment has received.)Provigil etc. (Modafinil) 7.8 (89)
Psychotherapy: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) 7.5 (72)
Celexa etc. (Citalopram) 6.7 (122)
Lexapro etc. (Escitalopram) 6.6 (495)
Prozac etc. (Fluoxetine) 6.6 (128)
Zoloft etc. (Sertraline) 6.4 (135)
Wellbutrin etc. (Bupropion) 6.3 (167)
Remeron etc. (Mirtazapine) 6 (58)
Effexor (Venlafaxine) 5.9 (277)
Paxil etc. (Paroxetine) 5.7 (113)
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