Antidepressants to treat grief? Psychiatry panelists with ties to drug industry say yes

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198. Thank you for admitting you are not a qualified professional. More inside.

1) you are not qualified to make a statement about a subject you obviously know very little about.
2)
- one needs to be a qualified professional to be able to understand if the study they saw is what it seems to be.
- one needs to have a bit of integrity to mention that this one study might not be a definitive last word, might possibly be wrong and if possible offer a link to a study that presents a counter argument. I will assume that you did look at both sides of the argument before making up your mind.

For a non-qualified person (like me) I can offer a look at this article:

http://blogs.plos.org/mindthebrain/2012/12/26/the-antidepressant-wars-a-sequel-how-the-media-distort-findings-and-do-harm-to-patients/

It's written by: Adrian Preda MD is a psychiatrist and Health Sciences Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at University of California Irvine School of Medicine.

Article presents both analysis of the study you mention and enough references to further have a look at the subject at hand. It also gives one an idea about questions one should ask when one looks at any study.


In regards to your claim that I take your posts as an attack on me and my personal experience.

My personal experience was "strong people don't need fucking drugs", "drugs don't work because everyone knows that", and "one can overcome everything if only one makes an effort". See, I was then just a shade better than you are now: I only believed that bullshit when it applied to myself, never for other people.

Because of my personal experiences I would welcome any and all kind of relief that can be offered to other people going through difficult time in their lives. I can not imagine anyone who went through major depressive episode or knows first hand what depressive illness is about would even think telling other people not to look for professional help. Unless of course they are scientologists or sadists like mother theresa.

On the other hand I would NEVER recommend anyone to self medicate with alcohol, like you do.
I can perfectly understand why someone might do it, will not judge them if they do, and will offer them support and beg them to please, please, please go get professional help before it is too late.