The story about clinical trials is more complicated. There have been clinical trials where SSRIs underperformed the placebo, but they basically just need two positive clinical trials to get a drug approved.temp2021 wrote: ↑Sun Jul 24, 2022 11:49 amSSRIs have shown to help in clinical trials. The truth is many people benefited from SSRIs regardless of what causes depression and what SSRIs do. The truth is only a minor group of patients had PSSD among patients who took SSRIs. The truth is some people developed PSSD like symptoms after taking supplements like 5htp or ashwaganda. I took 5htp and had symptoms worse than what most people described in this forum. I never took an SSRI in my whole life. But instead of focusing on what is peculiar about us genetically or maybe having a pre-existing condition, let’s just only focus on SSRI and what they do to our bodies.Flo wrote: ↑Fri Jul 22, 2022 3:01 pmTrue, but I think the problem is that this is the way that the drugs are being prescribed to patients - they are still being told that these drugs balance brain chemicals that are out of balance, causing depression (a friend's partner was prescribed with this story only last month). It was a marketing ploy (just like the name 'antidepressant') but it has found its way into medical education and practice.
We’re just trying to bring attention to our conditions. It’s possible that someone in the news media might publish a story on PSSD, because this latest Serotonin study got the media and public to focus on antidepressants.