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Re:Tips for the depressed by syndacks on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @01:34PM (#22537503)
>I’ve done a lot of research and I think psychiatry is pseudoscience and antidepressants are largely placebo.

Care to link any of them? I have a hard time believing they are placebo, as they fundamentally alter neurochemistry.

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Re:Tips for the depressed by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @03:13PM (#22538558)
Parent probably doesn't mean that they don't do anything, only that they do not actually treat depression.
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Re:Tips for the depressed by ncmncm on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @10:47PM (#22553165)
Wrong either way.

If one doesn't work, try another. Depression is a lot of different illnesses with one name. What helps one might make another worse. The only way to know which you have is which med helps. If any. Some of them (nobody knows how many) don't have a working treattment yet. Others absolutely do, and if it's the one you have, lucky you.

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Re:Tips for the depressed by cheeko1234 on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @04:35PM (#22539406)
The book Lost Connections goes in-depth into this.

https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Connections-Uncovering-Depressio...

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