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"I'm not denying or believe that SSRI's didn't help you, but you are evidently proven to be a small minority thanks to those meta-analyses. But I TOTALLY agree that instead of conglomerating studies to see if something works is rather silly, and we should instead subdivide studies and figure out why some drugs work and some don't. (Unfortunately, that's not how drug studies often work...I've read too many papers were there're a couple outliers skewing data and the authors present the drug as an overall moderate success when in reality, it's a huge success for like 5% of participants, and totally ineffective for the other 95%.) Furthermore, the amount of data hidden by drug companies who make SSRI's that has only come to light recently, show that SSRI's can basically backfire and make someone commit suicide. \r\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksJXaqx6Gag\r\n\r\nPeople don't have to take SSRI's because they work. They take them out of desperation and because they have been told there's medical reasons to take them, and they'll wait the necessary month to see if they work, maybe wait longer or then up the dosage, have some sort of up or lessening of symptoms during the following months, think they might be working, until they feel worse again and then they up the dose more or then try another one. If they try another one, they get withdrawal that makes them feel worse and understandably, they see that as the drug was actually doing something, so they are anxious to start up a different one. And there are, what, a dozen of these drugs to cycle through? That's quite a long time of trying different drugs. And they're basically the only treatment a medical professional is going to give you. Of course you'll keep taking them. Besides which, billions of people use folk medicine that does absolutely nothing medical because they feel better doing it. \r\n\r\n\" If they couldn’t tell the difference between SSRIs and placebo, the people in the study must not have had very serious depression\" Why why why do you assume that YOU are the standard? Yes, you can have serious depression and not show improvement on an SSRI. I am one of them, or was when I started anti-depressants. Besides which, how you DO you know you weren't yourself experiencing a placebo? Oh of course you weren't, you're a smart person, you wouldn't be fooled by that, you had clear, noticeable changes that made you better...but nevertheless that's exactly how a placebo works.\r\n\r\nAs someone who has been depressed for over a decade in varying degrees of severity, and who was then, finally, diagnosed with celiac disease, I had to change my diet and cook all my own foods and be incredibly careful what I eat...far more cautious than the recommendations on this site. All celiacs go through this, and many of them are very, very sick, not just emotionally and mentally, but physically too. The difference is that we KNOW that we can get better by changing our diets is what makes you eat better, so people do it. (I will say I haven't been suicidal while changing my diet, but that's because the only times I've ever attempted suicide were when I was in SSRI's or withdrawing from them. I was 18 when I started antidepressants, not a child or even an adolescent.)"
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