Antidepressants may be Anti-Doing-Something

Antidepressants may not actually do anything for the average or even severely depressed person. They still work for the extremely depressed, however.

Researchers found that placebos worked just as well as most prescription antidepressants. There are over 115 million people on antidepressants in the United States and most of them, as of now, are taking medications that help as much as a sugar pill.

The rushed US healthcare system is being blamed for the over-prescribing of these pills. Primary care physicians might feel compelled to make snap judgments in order to deal with the overwhelming flow of patients. 

Many of these drugs are also prescribed for other ailments, such as obsessive-compulsive disorder and panic disorder.  Do the drugs work better as a placebo in these incidents? 

Doctors recommend old-school couch therapy to cure mild depression. You know, the kind where you talk about your parents and that dream where you're a Dutch pelican.

Doctors also recommend exercise. Cause, you might as well be buff and depressed. Just don't slip in your tears while you're doing push ups.

Personally, I get a kick out of existential angst.

Whenever I'm sad, I think about a girl who has always wanted a pony. For her whole childhood, this girl wants a pony. She grows up, drops out of college, gets pregnant very young and ends up working at the Safeway until she dies from smoking Laramies.  She never stops wanting a pony, which, in all fairness, isn't the hardest thing to obtain in the entire scope of obtainable things in the world. She never gets her pony, but she lived each day and never complained.

This makes me happy, because I think that even if I wanted a pony, and that pony seemed like it was completely unobtainable, I'd at least be able to eke out a three-legged donkey despite the impossible odds. It isn't a pony, but it is a pathetically tri-hoofed mammal, a beacon of my spiteful victory over the bleakness of the cosmos.

I hope that makes sense.

If you are depressed, see a psychiatrist.

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Comments

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