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> Depression to take a few weeks to reverse if you just get enough stimulation? On average it will reverse regardless since the half-life of depression is only
by Alex3917 9y ago
> Depression to take a few weeks to reverse if you just get enough stimulation?
On average it will reverse regardless since the half-life of depression is only a few weeks, unless you take antidepressants in which case it's perhaps less severe but is also less likely to go away.
- TillE 9y ago> but is also less likely to go away. Why are you posting absolute nonsense here?
- Smaug123 9y agoCharitably, the parent has misphrased the following sentiment: "taking antidepressants correlates with having worse depression (in the same way as taking antibiotics correlates with having worse infections)".
- pragone 9y ago> the half-life of depression is only a few weeks Are you referring to a single major depressive episode? And presumably not referring to the various other depressive disorders that last months to years? FWIW, this one of many things that makes treating "depression" challenging - there are many different forms of depression, and not infrequently the underlying pathology is quite different.
- Alex3917 9y ago> Are you referring to a single major depressive episode? Yeah if you read Anatomy of an Epidemic, Robert Whitaker has a good research review of all the large scale NIMH/NIH studies.