Prozac 'no better than placebo' for treating children with depression, experts

Re:Prozac 'no better than placebo' for treating children wit... by jacobgkau on Friday November 21, 2025 @04:20PM (#46009119)

A drug can have real effects while being no better than a placebo for doing something specific (what they're supposed to do).

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Re:Prozac 'no better than placebo' for treating children wit... by pyth0 on Friday November 21, 2025 @04:27PM (#46009189)

Okay, so what makes you believe that about prozac (or SSRIs) then?

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Re:Prozac 'no better than placebo' for treating children wit... by ckw on Friday November 21, 2025 @05:23PM (#46009731)

Here’s a paper from last year: The nature and impact of antidepressant withdrawal symptoms and proposal of the Discriminatory Antidepressant Withdrawal Symptoms Scale (DAWSS) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadr.2024.100765

‘Highlights

• Antidepressant withdrawal can be severe and protracted.

• It produces characteristic physical and emotional symptoms.

• All symptoms were more severe after stopping than before starting antidepressants.

• We identified the 15 most discriminatory withdrawal symptoms in our sample.

• Withdrawal did not differ between people with physical or mental health diagnoses.’

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