Tuesday, February 26, 2008

antidepressants

They don't work. Read on.

3 comments:

david penner said...

As I read this research, it doesn't indicate that antidepressants don't work, as the article's headline suggests; they do work. But they don't work better than placebo. What's most interesting, to me, is why placebo is so effective.

Daniel said...

But that's just it. If they don't work any better than a placebo they, in and of themselves, don't work at all. The belief you're taking something, anything, is the real agent of change. Much like a placebo.

david penner said...

Yeah, okay. I guess we're quibbling over terms a bit.