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Originally Posted by Dion
There was a real good study that escapes my mind where in 1994 there were 4 SSRI drugs that were the top 4 in adverse side effects as reported by FDA. The article also focused on the ways drug companies do thier trials and how the results are manipulated to get favourable results. It also doesn't help that drug companies are the ones paying to have these trials done. If you want to selected to do another trail your results better be positive.
Then you have the extensive advertising drug companies do on TV in the States in regards to anitdepressents. Someone sees thier ads and rushes off to thier GP to get a perscription. Nothing like promoting a drug to better the bottom line.
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Do you know how much things have changed in the last 10 years? A drug like Lexapro has almost no side effects.
I'm concerned with the way you are spinning your perspective, Dion. Of course there are issues with testing and regulating drugs; the profit motive can encourage drug companies to be not entirely transparent with their own processes. However, ignoring the benefits of pharmaceuticals and spewing this nonsense as being the untold truth is so close to what Tower does.
FlamesAddiction, no one here has said that drugs are the only way; only that they are one useful and important step to being treated. Do not self-diagnose, do not self-treat. See a medical professional, someone like your GP with which you have a personal relationship and who cares about your well-being.
Drugs do not work for everyone, but they do work. The negative side effects do not impact a majority of patients, and the extreme side effects like seritonen syndrome are exceptionally rare.