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"Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy - study" Well, if drugs are only slightly better than placebo, and that's for the sickest patients maybe you shouldn't use
by marincounty 12y ago
"Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy - study"
Well, if drugs are only slightly better than placebo, and that's for the sickest patients maybe you shouldn't use it as a marker anymore? And that efficacy number is so low; it's wispered, and some clinicians after looking at the studies/metadata cannot even say drugs work over placebo in clinical depression.
(sorry for being so dismissive--just tired of these "studies" that leave out the fact that so many drug/depression studies were poorly done, manipulated, cherry picked, didn't exclude early placebo responders, done in 3rd world countries for the cheapest price(no real oversight, lying, etc.), and we were essentially lied to---)
- mkehrt 12y agoThe ineffectiveness of drugs against depression is highly overstated--the average effectiveness is low, but the variance is high, and they tend to be more effective the more severe the depression. The meme of "drugs aren't actually effective against depression" isn't doing the people for whom do work any favors.