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Re:Prozac 'no better than placebo' for treating children wit... by thebigspacefuck on Thursday November 20, 2025 @09:32PM (#46000589)
Placebo can be life changing
Re:Prozac 'no better than placebo' for treating children wit... by biff1 on Thursday November 20, 2025 @09:55PM (#46000716)
Nocebo can too. Apropos the featured article, I wonder if we should worry about that when we report in the popular media that antidepressants trigger suicides.
Re:Prozac 'no better than placebo' for treating children wit... by abraxas on Friday November 21, 2025 @03:23PM (#46008560)
Absolutely. These random namedrops of drugs are irritating. People respond to different psychiatric medications in wilddly different ways. And actually, the majority do not respond at all. Throwing a random name of some random medication helps absolutely nobody. It will just make some desperate people seek "this one drug" that they heard about on the internet.
Re:Prozac 'no better than placebo' for treating children wit... by muhis on Saturday November 22, 2025 @01:04AM (#46012505)
That was an anecdote about the medication in question, not a random namedrop. Prozac is fluoxetine.