Giving a lecture on old-timey quack medicines tomorrow

[Care Acutely]

24. Even that singular naysayer conceedes that antidepressants DO work

and do have a clinically significant benefit for those with clinical ("bad&quot depression.

The patients I see personally, over and over end up in our facility because they were previously diagnosed with MDD, got onto a good antidepressant that was working for them, felt better, and then quit taking their pills. Can't tell you how many times I've heard "I was feeling so good, I figured I didn't need them anymore."

Me: "Well, perhaps - but when you're ready to quit taking an antidepressant you have to do it with the help of your provider. We want to help you be safe."

So now they've got another major setback, sometimes an incompleted suicide and perhaps a committal or law enforcement action to deal with. Its a damn mess but with the right medication and continuing, effective therapy, I've seen these meds save lives. Save families.

These poor people have had enough cruel, ignorant and whacked-out people like Tom Cruise and other anti-pharm hysterics telling them it's "all in their head."