Interesting article on Anti Depresants

[Salford66]

http://www.naturalnews.com/029004_antidepressants_patients.html

[29sillygirl]

Illustrates a fact many of us have discovered.  Easy to find online articles that sound 'interesting' but on closer examination are full of inaccuracies.

I am a retired librarian and have helped hundreds of patrons who were naive about online searches.  Not stupid, just inexperienced:).  Call your public library and see if a librarian can find you articles (many are online now) from respected medical journals.

[Paxiled]

Interesting story, but odd.  Antidepressants don't increase serotonin, they reuse used serotonin.  No additional serotonin is produced, it's just used longer, and other receptors shut down as the brain no longer finds them necessary.  And different ssris and snris target different receptors, and not all antidepressants target serotonin.  So either the article is very badly written, or the study is very badly done.  And there's no evidence I've seen antidepressants work in 50% of the people, which the article claims -- the figure is closer to 30% unless you combine medications.  Of course, since people respond differently to different antidepressants, that doesn't mean much to any particular individual, but that's what double blinded studies have found.  You can find them posted on the NIMH website.  So the story is full of incorrect info.  Is it the article or the study?