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Re: Irving Kirsch, placebos and antidepressants

Posted by LouisianaSportsman on October 18, 2013, at 13:35:22

In reply to Re: Irving Kirsch, placebos and antidepressants » Phillipa, posted by doxogenic boy on October 18, 2013, at 11:03:52

I think he does have one point. I really do placebo effect plays a large part in a patient's response to SSRIs, but to say it's solely placebo is just not correct. I've never gotten anything out of a SSRI beyond placebo, but I feel like I'm at least getting a placebo effect from my Pristiq (desvenlafaxine). As a patient with some of the best access to psychiatric healthcare in the world via my PDOC and insurance that pays for any med, I know that not all psychotropic psychiatric medications are placebo. Abilify is not placebo and is the most "non-placebo" medicine I have ever taken in terms of its effect on symptoms rather than side effects. I think some patients that go to GPs and get Prozac may rely on the placebo effect more than patients that go to licensed PDOCs and try a large array of psychiatric medicines.

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