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Are you suggesting that because some percentage of individuals experiences adverse effects, it doesn't help the vast majority of individuals? Antidepressants s
by oarabbus_ 6y ago
Are you suggesting that because some percentage of individuals experiences adverse effects, it doesn't help the vast majority of individuals?
Antidepressants such as Zoloft and Prozac are taken by tens of millions of Americans each year, yet both drugs carry a black box warning that they may cause or worsen suicidal thoughts, and both drugs have been shown in scientific studies to worsen depression in some percentage of patients. And manufacturers of both drugs have paid out large sums of money in class-action lawsuits where the drugs were implicated in suicides attempts.
If someone said "SSRIs are useful to treat people with clinical depression" would you simply reply:
>Yeah, citation needed for that. Because "people often have meltdowns and new or worsening suicidal thoughts" isn't really encouraging.
In other words, because thousands of individuals experience worsening depression or suicidal thoughts, you'd doubt that it provides long-term help to the millions who don't experience those effects?