After thousands of studies, hundreds of millions of prescriptions and tens of billions of dollars in sales, two things are certain about pills that treat depression:
Along with ads for “get the technical training you need, to prepare for the economic upturn”, few ads irk me more than those that advertise new studies to chemically combat depression.
I’ll acknowledge that depression can be debilitating and needs treatment, but I’ve never been in favor of heavy medication replacing counseling and a little old fashion boot-strap therapy. Obviously, no offense is intended towards anyone out there currently suffering from clinical depression, but this report seems to verify my personal belief on this subject.
Simply stated, if your body can fix the problem (and this seems to indicate that in many cases, barring a glandular deficiency, it can), then your body should fix the problem, and it is the responsibility of your physician to help that happen, not drug you til you don’t notice.
There are times for using medicine to dull pain, but if a doc tries to tell me that such a thing is necessary for more than the few hours before, during and after a surgery or sustained injury, I start to get a bit skeptical.
