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Re: The 'antidepressants dont work' thing

Posted by Christ_empowered on July 28, 2011, at 14:12:57

In reply to Re: The 'antidepressants dont work' thing, posted by morgan miller on July 28, 2011, at 12:24:52

I think part of the problem is that doctors select patients for drug treatment for "depression" when the patients might benefit from non-drug treatment and/or other forms of medication.

I've read, for instance, that a lot of what we call "depression" these days would have been called "anxiety" back in the days of barbiturates, meprobamate, and Valium. That might explain why so many "depressed" people benefit from low-dose neuroleptics--they're getting that tranquilization they need.

Even back when the TCAs and the MAOIs hit the scene, they still used other drugs (uppers, downers, upper+downer combos, tranquilizers, neuroleptics, etc.) to treat what we would today call "depression." I think that since the disease model hadn't evolved quite yet, those doctors may have been better at treating the specific problems, rather than treating based on a diagnosis.


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