Posted by papillon on January 19, 2012, at 19:05:01
In reply to Is Concensus In That Any Class AD;s Not longterm?, posted by Phillipa on January 16, 2012, at 12:00:08
> Seems like after reading meassages on various threads that the concensus is that ad's are not for long term and that a lot are like placebos. Exceptions made for bipolor and scihitzophenia or like illnesses. Do all agree or some that most posters here are extremly ill. As when I joined her it didn't seem to be the case? Phillipa
It seems that posters here generally have more serious depression.
The whole placebo affect thing is more about people with mild to moderate depression. People who would likely respond just as well to talk therapy and exercise. ADs are proven to work far more successfully in people with severe depression and this group have a far far lower placebo rate. Too many people are given ADs when they don't need them. Some PCPs dish them out without even an actual diagnosis. That's what skewing the results and the arguments about ADs.
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