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POPS31 Sneaky Mood Boosters Want to feel happier today, tomorrow and for the rest of your life? Okay, okay, dumb question — of course you do!
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POPSWho Are We? Coming of Age on Antidepressants The reason has to do with the way drugs are tested and approved. To get F.D.A. approval, a drug has to beat a placebo in two randomized clinical trials that typically involve a few hundred subjects who are treated for relatively short periods, usually 4 to 12 weeks.So drugs are approved based on short-term studies for what turns out to be long-term — often lifelong — use in the world of clinical practice. What do I say to a depressed patient who is doing well after five years on such a drug but can’t stop without a depressive relapse and who wants reassurance that the drug has no long-term adverse effects?I usually say that we have no evidence that the drug poses a risk with long-term use; and since the risk of untreated depression is much greater than the hypothetical risk of the drug, it makes sense to stay on it.
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POPSDepression Sources Mispresented by Media We've been taught this in every single Psychology course I've taken (nearly a dozen) and there's always some idiot who says, "But the Zoloft squiggle says it's a chemical imbalance!" Seriously, people. If Corona told you their beer would fix a chemical imbalance, would you believe them? One company is the same as the other. The job of advertisements is to SELL. I'm so glad to see all of this new unbiased data on anti-depressant effectiveness. Why on earth does the FDA let companies do their own testing? Ridiculous. </rant>
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