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Re: Fears + Facts About Antidepressants

Posted by 49er on October 30, 2010, at 5:56:43

In reply to Fears + Facts About Antidepressants, posted by Phillipa on October 29, 2010, at 20:05:21

> Simple read. Phillipa
>
> http://www.webmd.com/depression/fears-and-facts-about-antidepressants

Hi Phillipa,

Web MD isn't exactly bias free as drug companies contribute significantly to its financing.

See this blog entry by Dr. Daniel Carlat, a psychiatrist, who is definitely not anti-meds.

http://carlatpsychiatry.blogspot.com/search/label/WebMD

By the way, just so people know, when I felt that an anti med website had published research that I thought was biased, I complained to the website owner. As I told Scott in a previous post, it is hard to be completely bias free with anything but with research, at least the conflicts need to be disclosed.

Unless you carefully look as Dr. Carlat did, it is not immediately obvious on this site.

As for the article itself. as usual, drug side effects are minimized by being labeled as rare. Well, if doctors are blowing off complaints by patients about legitimate side effects, (google statins and doctors not taking complaints seriously), of course, nothing is going to get reported to the FDA.

I am assuming it even worse with people with mental illness labels because after all, you can't believe those crazy people. I am being sarcastic by the way.

Anyway, I saw a statistic somewhere that about 2 to 10 per cent of all drug side effects are ever reported to the FDA. So of course, everything is going to be seen as rare.

Even sexual side effects, where are taken more seriously by doctors were blamed on the person's illness in this article.

49er


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