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Stop Using Antidepressants Except for “the Most Severe Depression,” Experts Say

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Take, for instance, a recent meta-analysis finding that exercise is just as good as antidepressants at treating mild to moderate depression —and that adding drugs to the regimen does not improve outcomes. But depression—in its natural state—is self-limiting. Dixon, M., & Marshall-Andrews, M.

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Winding Back the Clock: What If the STAR*D Investigators Had Told the Truth?

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Here is the cover from that issue: In his essay, Miller repeatedly stressed that ever since 2006, the STAR*D study had stood “out as a beacon guiding treatment decisions.” In 1931, Horatio Pollock, of the New York State Department of Mental Hygiene, conducted a long-term study of 2,700 depressed patients hospitalized from 1909 to 1920.