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Scientists have called into question the widespread use of antidepressants after a major review found “no clear evidence” that low serotonin levels are responsible for depression.
Prescriptions for antidepressants have risen dramatically since the 1990s, with one in six adults and 2% of teenagers in England now being prescribed them. Millions more people around the world regularly use antidepressants.
“Many people take antidepressants because they have been led to believe their depression has a biochemical cause, but this new research suggests this belief is not grounded in evidence,” said the study's lead author, Joanna Moncrieff, a professor of psychiatry at University College London and consultant psychiatrist at North East London NHS foundation trust.
“It is always difficult to prove a negative, but I think we can safely say that after a vast amount of research conducted over several decades, there is no convincing evidence that depression is caused by serotonin abnormalities, particularly by lower levels or reduced activity of serotonin.
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they've known this for years and is universally accepted by doctors
nobody really knows jack shit about the brain, or why it does what it does (depression, anxiety, mental illness) or even why medications work
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Add in TBIs to that list, nobody has a clue if someone will recover 10/50/100% of their pre injury capabilities
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Yeah any person who has done a modicum of research on the pills they take will find no one knows how the frick pills work.
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I'm not one of those weird anti-psychiatry/therapy contrarian freaks but the "research" behind SSRI's is jewish chad shit. SSRIs should be a last resort when therapeutic means aren't enough. Nobody should use SSRIs as a first option. It shouldn't even be allowed
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If nothing else, there's something like a 2% chance of it causing sleepwalking which is really fricking dangerous, especially if you don't know it's happening.
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This but unironically. The first approach to depression should have been CBT. I have a gut feeling that most depression comes from people living in an unfortunate circumstances and did taking the proper steps to resolve it (or expecting it to be resolved quickly). The mindset of an individual is a great indicator who's NGMI and who will succeed
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Le science was wrong
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There are two cures for depression
1 Stop being such a fricking cute twink (not the good kind of cute twink but the bad kind)
2
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haha ooops did we come up with a completely wrong interpretation of shit data that allowed these companies to make billions selling worthless and dangerous garbage? lmao science sure is fricking hard, welp cya
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I've never met a depressed person from the Paleolithic era. It wasn't a thing. Why is that?
But forget about depression.. that's not fetch enough anymore, right? It has seemingly been milked dry of its 'woe is me!'-value.
Now everyone is "neurodivergent".
Absolute nonsense.
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Yeah it's the anger
issues that come from serotonin issues, duh
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I unironically think depression is almost 100% caused by sedentary lifestyles
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Maybe they got some munchies in their samples research subjects
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Robert Burton wrote the last good book about depression, it's been nonsense since
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i am medmaxxing
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Snapshots:
ghostarchive.org
archive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
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