“would this pass FDA approval if it were a heart medication?”
- and that’s the real problem, isn’t it ? Psychiatry and the pharm companies concocted the “chemical imbalance” theory of mental illness, with no provable science behind it, and now they are trying to have the FDA and the general public think that the SSRIs are as well tested for mental illnesses as Synthroid is for thyroid disease.
Of course, intranasal steroids have the same problem. As do all allergy medicines. As do all medications which treat symptoms that can only reasonably be tested by patient's perceptions of outcomes. But don't let that slow you down.