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It can on one hand be argued antidepressants aren't necessary for anyone. You can argue that and be correct. This is because antidepressants don't actually cure
by marginalia_nu 4y ago
It can on one hand be argued antidepressants aren't necessary for anyone. You can argue that and be correct. This is because antidepressants don't actually cure depression, but lessen the symptoms and enable severe depression to be cured through behavioral changes.
It's a line of reasoning that is technically true but really sort of missing the point.
The problem with treating depressed people is to get them to actually do the things that will help them. That can be incredibly difficult without medication.
- KvanteKat 4y ago> The problem with treating depressed people is to get them to actually do the things that will help them. That can be incredibly difficult without medication. The problem with talking about doing "things that will help them" is that we don't really have a lot of effective clinical interventions. Even the most common interventions (SSRIs, Congnitive Behavioral Therapy, physical exercise, etc.) are not really that effective at treating depression and have little to no effect in large parts of the affected population. That being said, these treatments _do_ work for some people so they should definitely not be dismissed out of hand (although it may in some cases be regression to the mean more than anything else, i.e. if you get better after a while on your own but have undergone treatments of one form or another you may erroneously believe your most recent treatment was effective).