> debilitating issues. Could it be that you had severe depression, if the issues were debilitating? Irving Kirsch's studies have shown that anti-depressents ar

> debilitating issues. Could it be that you had severe depression, if the issues were debilitating? Irving Kirsch's studies have shown that anti-depressents are indeed effective for such cases. Or perhaps it just happened to work for you. RCTs only look at mean effects so they dilute exceptions and outliers. Anyways, this is a more pro-anti-depressants/pro-psychiatry analysis of Irving Kirsch's research: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/07/ssris-much-more-than-you-wanted-to-know/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/07/ssris-much-more-than-y...