Re:The psychiatric drug crisis
by 011011100 on Sunday September 08, 2013 @02:38AM
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>Personal anecdotes are not data.
Um, yes they are. Are they reliable data? I'm not convinced they're not.
>If you're depressed, you're statistically likely to not be depressed in six months time, regardless of whether you seek treatment or not. In these circumstances, it's easy for a completely ineffective treatment to look like a miracle cure.
Because never in the history of medicine has a treatment for depression had an immediate effect?
Re:The psychiatric drug crisis
by jdietrich on Sunday September 08, 2013 @05:17AM
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No depression treatment is claimed to have an immediate effect. If you start taking SSRIs and immediately feel better, it's pure placebo - the marketers of those drugs say that SSRIs take weeks to show any noticeable effect.
Um, yes they are. Are they reliable data? I'm not convinced they're not.
>If you're depressed, you're statistically likely to not be depressed in six months time, regardless of whether you seek treatment or not. In these circumstances, it's easy for a completely ineffective treatment to look like a miracle cure.
Because never in the history of medicine has a treatment for depression had an immediate effect?