Talk:Antidepressant
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[edit] Sources
- http://www2.cochrane.org/reviews/en/ab003012.html
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antidepressant#Therapeutic_efficacy
- http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/303/1/47
d hominem 12:58, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
[edit] Correction
Hey I fixed a mix up of medications, prozac was listed as the generic of zoloft and visa versa. — Unsigned, by: 24.186.74.63 / talk / contribs
[edit] Talk
I'm writing a paper making a case for severely inadequate research into antidepressants, particularly when it comes to long-term studies on overall outcomes and wellbeing. Please share relevant research...IF you can find any!
[edit] Removed big pharma rant text
Also the leaflets still downplay the withdrawal symptoms which can be so severe and debilitating that people are not able to function for a very lomg time (many years!), or are forced to get back to the medication, even when the original indication for presciption is not actual anymore.
Though those patients are technically not addicted, they will be forced to take the medication forever and live with the possible side effects, only to keep away the withdrawal effects.
- For posterity Kassorlae (talk) 23:17, 29 May 2014 (UTC)
- I think the removed text is accurate. I'm not anti-pharma, but I think big pharma has earned some bad vibes for just this sort of thing and other things in this class of medications. I won't return such text, though, unless I find something to support it. MarmotHead (talk) 02:18, 30 May 2014 (UTC)
- Why'd you cut it? Writing style? Unproven assumptions? I don't feel hostile about it, just casually opposed. MarmotHead (talk) 13:50, 30 May 2014 (UTC)
- Why I cut it:
- "Also the leaflets still downplay the withdrawal symptoms which can be so severe and debilitating that people are not able to function for a very lomg time (many years!)" < cut > Leaflets, which leaflets? "severe and debilitating" - it can be, but it's actually considered 2SD>mu, and therefore not the norm. Spelling and the parenthetical, with extreme time frames (and an exclamation!). Oh, and spelling.
- ",or are forced to get back to the medication, even when the original indication for presciption is not actual anymore." - which goes to an issue of professional practice, but the rest of the article intimated that the RX's get you 'hooked and addicted' which is kinda the hallmark of big-pharma conspiratorial scares. Extreme evidence=++claims!
- "Though those patients are technically not addicted, they will be forced to take the medication forever and live with the possible side effects, only to keep away the withdrawal effects." - This is the most objectionable, which displays a fundamental lack of knowledge of addiction neuroscience.And this is tricky since it makes such general assertions, which can also be used to draw the ridiculous assertion that dehydration is a withdrawal effect of addiction to water.
- Personally, I think the last paragraph flows fine without all of this, but the article seems much like a very personal diatribe with unknown motives, but with the suspicion that the adverse consequences happened to the original author. I am not stating that is the case, but it does come across that way to me, and I came with no preconceived notions Kassorlae (talk) 15:08, 30 May 2014 (UTC)
- Good points! OK, I won't rush to replace it or bluster about how great it was(n't). MarmotHead (talk) 16:57, 30 May 2014 (UTC)
[edit] Help for someone who is depressed?
I was prescribed Prozac a few days ago, and today I stumbled upon this site:
http://www.prozactruth.com/prozacsideeffects.htm
Who runs it? I can't find who, and is the person who runs it a quack? It's really freaking me out. I just want to add that I feel like crap right now. (Chest pain, etc., but i hear that's completely normal for the first few weeks?--75.164.160.124 (talk) 01:23, 22 November 2014 (UTC)
- That site makes my FUD sense tingle. I'd take it with a big grain of salt, especially since googling around shows there may be a Scientology connection through James Harper. Unique pinion (talk) 02:04, 22 November 2014 (UTC)
- Ah, $cientology... Go figure. Thanks!--75.164.160.124 (talk) 02:08, 22 November 2014 (UTC)
- For anecdotal purposes, I've been on and off Prozac, Paxil, and generic fluoxetine starting about sixteen years ago. Now off, and on an even keel thanks to moderate exercise and the support of friends and loved ones. I think the SSRI helped more than it hindered me. I remember recognizing a certain feeling in my chest that came with being on that kind of medication, but it wasn't painful. You probably already know to keep paying attention to how you feel, both physically and emotionally, and to keep talking to someone about it. Unique pinion (talk) 02:19, 22 November 2014 (UTC)
- Ah, $cientology... Go figure. Thanks!--75.164.160.124 (talk) 02:08, 22 November 2014 (UTC)
[edit] Prozac and Flouride?
Does prozac contain any flouride in it? (take a guess what group of people used this argument) If so how much?––68.116.121.14 (talk) 04:28, 22 November 2014 (UTC)
- Who is Mike Adams, Alex?
- (link to NaturalNews) Unique pinion (talk) 14:09, 22 November 2014 (UTC)