Anti-depressants "useless"
Quote by me. When someone asked once about my experience with the mothers little helpers. It was applied to both the medication and the effect they had on my sex-drive.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7263494.stm
As I've suspected for years, anti-depressants are largely a waste of time and money. Possibly in extreme cases where no form of therapy will help perhaps, but in my own personal experience they did fuck all and I fear for many people they are doled out purely as a poor substitute for better solutions that are either unavailable or deemed too expensive.
I'd go as far as to say many people on anti-depressants would have been better off without the pills giving them fall hope with little more than a placebo effect and given counselling or access to support groups like the excellent Aware in Ireland and Aware Defeat Depression in Northern Ireland where they can talk through their illness with fellow suffers including trained facilitators who will actually have first-hand experience rather than some third-person training from a journal or one-day course as many GPs probably have.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7263494.stm
As I've suspected for years, anti-depressants are largely a waste of time and money. Possibly in extreme cases where no form of therapy will help perhaps, but in my own personal experience they did fuck all and I fear for many people they are doled out purely as a poor substitute for better solutions that are either unavailable or deemed too expensive.
I'd go as far as to say many people on anti-depressants would have been better off without the pills giving them fall hope with little more than a placebo effect and given counselling or access to support groups like the excellent Aware in Ireland and Aware Defeat Depression in Northern Ireland where they can talk through their illness with fellow suffers including trained facilitators who will actually have first-hand experience rather than some third-person training from a journal or one-day course as many GPs probably have.