Posted by Cecilia on May 5, 2007, at 7:42:12
In reply to Do antidepressants work ?, posted by jenny80 on May 2, 2007, at 19:19:53
None work for me and I've tried pretty much everything there is. Clinical trials are a joke. They play with statistics until they get the results they want. There was a book out quite a while ago called "How to Lie with Statistics" The careful selection of patients for trials has nothing to do with real world depression. For example if you have both anxiety and depression, no way will you be accepted. When I applied for an rTMS trial I was told I wouldn't be accepted because there was no time in the past 5 years I hadn't been depressed. There's been no time in the last 40 years I haven't been depressed. (I did have the rTMS in Canada for $5000 with no benefit). Obviously, meds do help some people, but there are lots of us who can keep trying different things til we die with no benefit whatsoever. Cecilia
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