Posted by SLS on May 15, 2010, at 17:07:58
In reply to Re: History of depression - um? » sigismund, posted by ed_uk2010 on May 15, 2010, at 16:55:11
> > Depression in 1970 meant that you could not get out of bed and were physically sick. If you were unhappy or anxious, you were neurotic.
> Yes, that's what I mean. You weren't depressed unless you were so ill that you were totally incapable of normal daily activities for a prolonged period. The concept of depression being applied to people who have low mood or lack of pleasure (and a couple of other symptoms) for two or more weeks didn't exist.
This is exactly why I think that the more recent clinical trials of antidepressants fail to show a large separation between drug and placebo when compared to older investigations. Too many of the test subjects do not have the disease being investigated.
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