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Advertisements [ ? ] Do antidepressants work? Effectiveness may vary from person to person By Maia Szalavitz for MSN Health & Fitness Modern antidepressants have been blamed for deadly shooting rampages and violent suicides. At the same time, they’ve been hailed as miracle drugs that transform baleful Eeyore-types into bouncing Tiggers. Now the latest ...

And the drugs being over prescribed by practitioners who may not really have the expertise to monitor well. The right Rx can be a blessing. The wrong Rx, gone unnoticed, can spell disaster. Sometimes it take time and experiment to get the right drug for a patient. Again, that takes close monitoring. Dispense and forget is not treatment.

It could work for others too if it's medical benefits weren't constantly suppressed by the Federal Government and big pharma. I've only taken one prescription anti-depressant in my life (the old stop smoking drug), and it turned me into a raving lunatic within 3 days.

the realization that the same outward symptoms may come from different problems within the brain. In other words, symptom set A may be caused by B or C and will therefore respond to drug B1 or Drug C1, but the only way to find out what you're dealing with is to try drug B1 and if need be Drug C1. It's a weird backward diagnosis that can be determined only by getting a successful response to ...

My guess is that studies reviewing specific antidepressants might find a range of efficacy. For example, Bupropion (aka Wellbutrin and Zyban) is very effective, has almost no bad side effects, and several generally good side effects (e.g., weight loss). By contrast, the SSRIs (Prozac et al) have significant side effects that could cause depression - weight gain, tiredness, sexual dysfunction, ...