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Anti-depressants: Major study finds they work
Scientists say they have settled one of medicine's biggest debates after a huge study found that anti-depressants work. The study, which analysed data from 522 trials involving 116,477 people, found 21 common anti-depressants were all more effective at reducing symptoms of acute depression than dummy pills. But it also showed big differences in how effective each drug is.
The authors of the report, published in the Lancet [open, DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)32802-7] [DX], said it showed many more people could benefit from the drugs. There were 64.7 million prescriptions for the drugs in England in 2016 - more than double the 31 million in 2006 - but there has been a debate about how effective they are, with some trial[s] suggesting they are no better than placebos. The Royal College of Psychiatrists said the study "finally puts to bed the controversy on anti-depressants".
The so-called meta-analysis, which involved unpublished data in addition to the information from the 522 clinical trials involving the short-term treatment of acute depression in adults, found the medications were all more effective than placebos. However, the study found they ranged from being a third more effective than a placebo to more than twice as effective.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 23 2018, @04:41AM (1 child)
I was prescribed an SSRI anti-depressant drug when I was having panic attacks. The biggest drawback was they completely blocked my kundalini energy awareness and killed off the benefits of tantric energy practice. This was the ultimate drawback, and I absolutely loathed taking them. I could still have conventional (ejaculatory) orgasms, but even those felt greatly much less pleasurable. I weened myself off, then started some energetic grounding practices that resolved the panic attacks. Regular orgasms came back to full pleasure after a month or two. But, unfortunately it took a couple of years before my kundalini energy returned.
I can't remember which SSRI it was, but holy shit, that was definitely a case of the cure being worse than the problem.
Once you've gone down the tantra/kundalini path, ejaculation drains your energy away and stops you getting to the even greater levels of tantric pleasure. It actually made me depressed to think that the SSRI had broken me, and that I might only ever be able to have ejaculatory orgasms from then on. Fortunately, a couple of years later I was back to normal.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 23 2018, @07:06PM
My wife was prescribed a low dose of SSRI for her anxiety and now she no longer has the crippling attacks. She also feels fine otherwise.