Posted by yxibow on May 11, 2009, at 2:40:08
In reply to Re: Antidepressants Hardly Help ?????????, posted by jedi on May 11, 2009, at 2:31:59
> "Researchers from the U.K., U.S. and Canada analyzed results for fluoxetine (better known by the brand name Prozac), venlafaxine (Effexor), nefazodone (Serzone) and paroxetine (Paxil or Seroxat) all members of a class of drugs known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)."
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> Kind of makes you wonder, when the person writing and the people editing the article don't know the difference between a SSRI(Prozac, Paxil), a SNRI (Effexor) and Serzone which is neither a SSRI or a SNRI.
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> Maybe they should let the people on this site proof read their stuff before they print it for the masses.
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> Jedi
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I would tend to agree.The statement:
only patients who are diagnosed "at the upper end of the very severely depressed category" get any meaningful benefit from the widely prescribed drugs.
sounds like a gross canard.
What is a "severely depressed category" ? There are multiple kinds of depression. Unipolar. Bipolar, with multiple variations. Psychotic depression. Dysthymia. Situational depression. Secondary depression.
But they all can be debilitating and since no two individuals responds to the same set of medications at the same milligrams because we're all different, it creates more false doubt than reality.
I'm not a great fan of pop medicine articles, at least those who don't quote significant journals with widespread studies.
Sure, there's some truth to all of these sorts of reporting but they're vastly oversimplified.
-- Jay
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