Life Off Medication: A New Beginning

A few months off meds and things are going great.  I feel better without them.  I would encourage anyone on anti-depressant medication to attempt to wean themselves off.  There is little proof as to why they work.  Take the time to look at the information that comes with these medications and you can read for yourself the lines “we believe [they] work by…”

Here are some links on more information if you choose to dig:

What the FDA isn’t telling. – By Jeanne Lenzer – Slate Magazine

Unpublished data or no, antidepressants still work. – By Peter D. Kramer – Slate Magazine

NEJM — Selective Publication of Antidepressant Trials and Its Influence on Apparent Efficacy

Validity of Clinical Trials of Antidepressants — Quitkin et al. 157 (3): 327 — Am J Psychiatry

STAR*D

Clinical trials of antidepressant medications are producing meaningless results — Parker et al. 183 (2): 102 — The British Journal of Psychiatry

Depression is a mental problem.  Deal with it within that framework – don’t take physical remedies that merely mask the problem.  Talk it out, talk it over, change your mind.

~ by molingrad on October 14, 2009.