The trouble with antidepressants: why the evidence overplays benefits and underplays risks
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Do antidepressants create more mental illness than they cure?
“Let’s say you have a drug that provides a relief of symptoms in 20% of people. In placebo it’s 10%. How many people in that study do not benefit from the drug? Nine out of 10. How many people are…
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“Do antidepressants work?” A humanistic perspective
This article by Prof. Lisa Cosgrove was first published in The Humanistic Psychologist. The abstract says: “Since the approval of fluoxetine in 1987, there have been contentious debates about whether antidepressants ‘work.’ A recent meta-analysis on the efficacy and tolerability…
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‘We are a sedated society’: the rise in antidepressants during lockdown
The Myth of the Chemical Cure: A Critique of Psychiatric Drug Treatment
Patient Experiences With Antipsychotics Largely Negative, Survey Shows
Understanding Anxiety and Depression (part 2): Antidepressants
“Despite the exponential use of antidepressant medications … We still have no clue about levels of serotonin, or any other neurotransmitter, before or after treatment, or if this correlates with improvement in symptoms. More to the point, as a society,…
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Anti-depressants: “They’re popped like smarties.”
Are GPs prescribing them too often, or are we getting better at acknowledging depression? This is a 13 minute podcast (2014) from the BBC’s Woman’s Hour radio programme.
Netherworld – a film by Kevin P. Miller
You can watch this 8 minute film below. The promotional description says: “Natalie Gehrki was a creative spirit and an accomplished writer and artist. This short film, ‘Netherworld,’ Narrated by Academy Award winning actress Tilda Swinton, exposes how her experience…
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‘I lost a decade of my life to prescription drugs’
“The main sufferers of prescription-medication withdrawal are white women over the age of 45. We know how to put people on these drugs, we just don’t know how to get them off.” Dr. David Healy, professor of psychiatry, Bangor University….
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