And yet in actual practice plenty of patients feel like their antidepressants are effective. As is often the case, actual reality differs from what the studies say. Which actual practicing psychiatric professionals know. Maybe you should hold off on criticizing medication until you have enough of a medical background to understand the nuances of psychiatric care.
Hmm it’s interesting that you quote “206 suicide attempts in people taking antidepressants, versus 28 suicide attempts in people taking placebo” and yet fail to mention that the placebo group was about 1/3 the size of the treatment group. So comparing raw numbers isn’t appropriate, unless you’re aiming for shock value. Without going back through each individual study contained in these meta analyses, it’s impossible to draw conclusions because you don’t know the demographics of each patient population studied.
And yet in actual practice plenty of patients feel like their antidepressants are effective. As is often the case, actual reality differs from what the studies say. Which actual practicing psychiatric professionals know. Maybe you should hold off on criticizing medication until you have enough of a medical background to understand the nuances of psychiatric care.
Hmm it’s interesting that you quote “206 suicide attempts in people taking antidepressants, versus 28 suicide attempts in people taking placebo” and yet fail to mention that the placebo group was about 1/3 the size of the treatment group. So comparing raw numbers isn’t appropriate, unless you’re aiming for shock value. Without going back through each individual study contained in these meta analyses, it’s impossible to draw conclusions because you don’t know the demographics of each patient population studied.