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

Mad in America

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. They found that half of the antidepressant trials found no beneficial effect for antidepressants compared with placebo.

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It’s You, It’s Not Me: Treatment Resistant Depression and the Psychiatric Breakup

Mad in America

The eighties and nineties were a depression-treatment renaissance. The pattern is to treat depression as biological, to adhere to a medication regime even when that regime is not working, to omit non-medical treatments from the conversation and to describe the treatment’s failure as something to do with the patient.