Mad in America
DECEMBER 31, 2024
This low effectiveness for antidepressants (and depression treatments in general, if we are honest) at the population level suggests that decreasing the treatment gap will have little impact on the community prevalence of depression, the researchers write.
Mad in America
JANUARY 3, 2024
However, the creation of a “Prozac Nation” might not have been successful without the help of the NIMH, which launched an “educational campaign” at that time designed to change the public’s understanding of depression. Without that campaign, the “disease model” of depression may never have taken hold in the public mind.
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Zencare
JANUARY 22, 2025
Types of antidepressants : Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) The most frequently prescribed medications for depression. Treatment includes symptom reduction and remission. Tricyclic antidepressants These are not used very often for depression due to side effects, toxicity, and suicide potential.
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
667 In an NIMH study of 547 patients that compared six-year outcomes for depressed people treated for the disorder and those who eschewed medical treatment, the treated patients were three times more likely than untreated ones to suffer a cessation of their principal social role and nearly seven times more likely to become incapacitated.
Mad in America
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
The first NIMH treatment outcome study , which was published in 1989, found the drug treatment (imipramine) to be no more effective than placebo when measures were taken after three months of treatment. The same falsehoods are taught in continuing education programs to previously credentialed psychiatrists.
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