Posted by Bob on January 9, 2008, at 15:24:57
Does anyone know of any significant data on long term antidepressant use? I talking real world long term here, as in rest-of-life type treatment.
It seems to me that if a treatment resistant sufferer finally found something livable, he or she would need to remain on it for years, and possibly decades. Is there data on that people who've been stable on a treatment for decades, how they're doing, and what type of physical and mental issues might develop?
To me, the typical 3 month duration of FDA approved studies is not applicable to the real world and I've heard of no studies other than STAR*D that address the long term. One scary aspect of STAR*D is how many people dropped out.
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