If you are continually down and depressed and considering medication, and if you face financial or insurance constraints be sure to read Newsweek's cover story Depressing News About Antidepressants - Why Antidepressants Are No Better Than Placebos.
Research shows that antidepressants help about 75% of the patients who take them. Their safety and efficacy has been demonstrated, but numerous studies show the results and improvements are no different when patients take placebos, dummy sugar pills.
This means antidepressants are as effective as sugar pills in relieving depression so long as the patients believe in their effectiveness.
Only severely depressed people, about 13% of all depression patients, show significant improvement from antidepressants over placebos.
Psychiatry's "dirty little secret" has been known within the industry and at the FDA for years. Newsweek describes the research revealing the truth.
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