Over time, using antidepressants is not associated with significantly better health-related quality of life (HRQoL), compared to people with depression who do not take the drugs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These are the findings of a study published April 20, 2022 in the journal PLOS ONE<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The study included all noninstitutionalized U.S. adults (?18 years) who had depression documented in their medical condition files during the first year of the two-year follow-up. Over the duration of the study (2005\u20132016), on average there were 17.47 million adult patients diagnosed with depression disorder every year with two-year follow up. About 57.6% of these patients received treatment with antidepressant drugs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The researchers recommend that “Physicians, mainly primary care providers who are caring for most of these patients, may need to reconsider referring patients with depression to receive some kind of non-pharmacological therapy.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n The research study concludes with this quote: This is not even to mention the potentially horrific side effects of antidepressant use. The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has this to say about antidepressant side effects<\/a>: “Antidepressants increase the risk of suicidal thinking and behavior (suicidality) in children and adolescents with MDD [major depressive disorder] and other psychiatric disorders.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recognize that the real problem is that psychiatrists fraudulently diagnose life’s problems as an “illness”, and stigmatize unwanted behavior as “diseases.” Psychiatry’s stigmatizing labels, programs and treatments are harmful junk science; their diagnoses of “mental disorders” are a hoax<\/a> \u2014 unscientific, fraudulent and harmful. All psychiatric treatments, not just psychiatric drugs, are dangerous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you are taking any of these drugs, do not stop taking them based on what you read here. You could suffer serious withdrawal symptoms. Click here for more information<\/a> about harmful and addictive psychiatric drugs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Psychiatrists euphemistically call withdrawal side effects “discontinuation symptoms<\/a>” to disguise the addictive nature of these drugs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You should seek the advice and help of a competent non-psychiatric medical doctor or practitioner before trying to come off any psychiatric drug<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Contact your local, state and federal officials and let them know your viewpoints about harmful psychiatric treatments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Over time, using antidepressants is not associated with significantly better health-related quality of life (HRQoL), compared to people with depression who do not take the drugs. These are the findings of a study published April 20, 2022 in the journal … Continue reading
“The ultimate goal of using antidepressant medications or psychotherapy is to improve patients’ important outcomes, such as HRQoL. The real-world effect of using antidepressant medications does not continue to improve patients’ HRQoL over time, as the change in HRQoL was comparable to patients who did not use any antidepressant medications.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n