Let's Not Get Carried Away: Anti-Depressants Really Do Help People

Re:Let's Not Get Carried Away: Anti-Depressants Really Do He... by tehayj on Monday June 04, 2012 @05:04PM (#4065973)

Of course those drugs have their place. They should be used for quick interventions before people get cured by proper therapies. Unfortunately there is so much money in just keeping people on those drugs that just popping pills is offered as alternative solution as well.

Then after 2-3 years when one kind of drug doesn't work anymore you get the next one. The problem are not the drugs, the problem are the people prescribing them and people looking for a quick fix for their problems by taking pills instead of doing a proper therapy.

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Re:Let's Not Get Carried Away: Anti-Depressants Really Do He... by taligent on Monday June 04, 2012 @05:43PM (#4066114)

Please enlighten everyone about what "proper therapy" means.

You do realise that depression is not just psychological and that there are physical problems in some cases that ONLY medication will be able to solve.

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Re:Let's Not Get Carried Away: Anti-Depressants Really Do He... by tehayj on Tuesday June 05, 2012 @11:33AM (#4069044)

Please enlighten me what persistent physical problems exist for people with depression?

There are temporary physical problems or chemical inbalances for which the drugs work great but once people have done a therapy like cbt, act, mbct or dbt that works for them, those physical problems disappear as well.

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