Posted on 04/20/2022 11:04:20 AM PDT by algore
Antidepressants are no better at making people feel happier than taking no medication at all, a study claimed today.
Patients on the drugs did not have a significantly better quality of life compared to depressed people who were not on the pills, the analysis found.
Researchers looked 17.5million US adults with depression over 10 years, with around half on medication and half not.
Results showed a slight improvement in mental health in both groups, regardless of whether they were on antidepressants.
The researchers from King Saud University, Saudi Arabia, called for more long-term studies on patients on antidepressants to evaluate their impact on quality of life.
NHS doctors are already moving away from prescribing the drugs, which can cause a host of side effects.
The health service now advises that patients with mild depression be offered group therapy sessions before pills.
But independent experts said strong conclusions from the study cannot be drawn because those given the drugs were typically more depressed at the start, and therefore it was not a fair comparison.
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Sometimes there’s very solid reasons why people are depressed and a stupid pill isn’t going to make those things go away.
Deal with the problems and the depression will take care of itself.
I knew someone who had been on them. She said they made it so she didn’t care that she was unhappy.
Sometimes they make people shoot go on killing sprees at malls and other public gatherings.
Sometimes they make people go on killing sprees at malls and other public gatherings.
A good single-malt makes me happy.
I’m not a pharmacist, but semantically the word is “anti-depress-ant,” not “pro-happy-ant.” So does the medication help alleviate depression or not?
They make their relatives happier...............
Our society and technology makes people crazy.
Why do ALL antidepressants increase the risk of suicide? Hmmm??
Doesn’t that seem counterproductive?
I believe for some it does. I think the nature of the depression factors in as to helpful or not. Certain depression is chemical issues, some are from experiences and emotional issues.
Most people are vitamin d and b vitamins, deficient. Low values of these are causes of mood problems/depression. Then toss in wintertime in places where there’s less sun...
Many decades of such medicines and there’s nothing to show from it but side effects, over placebo.
I believe they suppress other parts the brain that has nothing to do with being depressed.
So, someone on antidepressant may not feel depressed but they may not feel anything or they may have suicidal thoughts they didn’t have before.
If anyone ever does come up with a happy pill, people would be dying of overdoses by the dozen.
Sometimes they make people shoot go on killing sprees at malls and other public gatherings.
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Why does it seem like a lot of anti-depressants have warning about suicidal feelings?
“Happy” isn’t the opposite of “depressed”, “vigor” is.
Because people who take antidepressants are depressed and more likely to commit suicide.
If they made customers happy everyone would take them.
They can help in severe depression where the patient demonstrates suicidal tendencies inability to function,loss of affect, etc.
They are much less helpful for depressive symptoms related to normal life situations. They have definitely been over prescribed in the past.
That’s when they cold turkey stop taking them.
It’s very dangerous to do that.
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