Anti-depressants 'of little use'

[hunter]

Source: BBC

New generation anti-depressants have little clinical benefit for most patients, research suggests.

A University of Hull team concluded that the drugs helped only a small group of the most severely depressed.

Marjorie Wallace, head of the mental health charity Sane, said that if these results were confirmed they could be "very disturbing".

But the makers of Prozac and Seroxat, two of the commonest anti-depressants, said they disagreed with the findings.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7263494.stm

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Anti-depressants are part of the cocktail that works for me, but I'm absolutely certain the common term "depression" describes a great number of problems, only some of which involve brain chemistry.

There are people like me who are "depressed" because their brain chemistry is wacky, but many more people are depressed because they are stuck in living situations not conducive to happiness. For them there is no magic pill.