Re:Most people on antidepressants don’t need them
by KvanteKat on Thursday October 20, 2022 @07:35AM
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> The problem with treating depressed people is to get them to actually do the things that will help them. That can be incredibly difficult without medication.
The problem with talking about doing "things that will help them" is that we don't really have a lot of effective clinical interventions. Even the most common interventions (SSRIs, Congnitive Behavioral Therapy, physical exercise, etc.) are not really that effective at treating depression and have little to no effect in large parts of the affected population. That being said, these treatments _do_ work for some people so they should definitely not be dismissed out of hand (although it may in some cases be regression to the mean more than anything else, i.e. if you get better after a while on your own but have undergone treatments of one form or another you may erroneously believe your most recent treatment was effective).
It's a line of reasoning that is technically true but really sort of missing the point.
The problem with treating depressed people is to get them to actually do the things that will help them. That can be incredibly difficult without medication.