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Silent3

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15. If the study is correct (and it's probably too soon to say that) it would be surprising...

Reply to Phoenix61 (Reply #6)

Fri Jul 22, 2022, 05:38 PM

Jul 2022

...for many antidepressants to just happen to work anyway, by some other means, given that many of these drugs have been selected or designed primarily for how they effect seratonin levels.

As someone who takes a drug classified as a "serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor" myself, I wouldn't be shocked at all to discover that it was nothing more than a placebo for me, and that improvements in my depression have been more matters of changes in life circumstances coincidentally happening along with taking the drug.

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Little evidence that chemical imbalance causes depression, UCL scientists find [View all] sl8 Jul 2022 OP

If that's the case, then why do sooo many ppl feel so much better taking them? PortTack Jul 2022 #1

It's a good question; however ... Novara Jul 2022 #5

The article doesn't say they don't work. Just that the Phoenix61 Jul 2022 #6

There is a plethora of scientific peer reviewed information that disputes that. PortTack Jul 2022 #7

Which that? That they work or that they work through a Phoenix61 Jul 2022 #9

The article says low seritonin is not the cause of depression. That is what I'm referring to PortTack Jul 2022 #10

This article says the same thing. Phoenix61 Jul 2022 #12

Here's my issue. PortTack Jul 2022 #21

The article doesn't say they don't work or not to use them. Phoenix61 Jul 2022 #22

I just want to shed light on what the real issue may be. Patients get caught in it and become PortTack Jul 2022 #25

If the study is correct (and it's probably too soon to say that) it would be surprising... Silent3 Jul 2022 #15

I knew a psychologist who believed they were increasing Phoenix61 Jul 2022 #16

My father was addicted to physical activity his whole life and moonscape Jul 2022 #24

Anti-depressants have worked wonders for me. Elessar Zappa Jul 2022 #2

i think this is more that they dont work the way we think they do. not so much- do they work. mopinko Jul 2022 #3

That makes sense, thanks. Elessar Zappa Jul 2022 #8

Problem is, the anti psychiatry movement is already running with this. Ex Lurker Jul 2022 #13

they've been on it for a long time. mopinko Jul 2022 #14

So what should the long term chronically depressed do? BlueIdaho Jul 2022 #4

It Doesn't Say They Don't Work ProfessorGAC Jul 2022 #11

Hey folks. This is not " new " News tulipsandroses Jul 2022 #17

Thank you blogslug Jul 2022 #19

Bullshit Pompoy Jul 2022 #18

Expert reaction to a review paper on the 'serotonin theory of depression' tulipsandroses Jul 2022 #20

All I know is that if I keep living in the USA... Buckeye_Democrat Jul 2022 #23