I’m with Hari, Lost Connections, 2018. Over 50% of people in the western world are on anti-depressants at some time. They do more harm than good, as all the research required for FDA approval in the U.S. is done by Big Pharma, who may through out 8 research results and keep only 2, if someone seemed to have been helped in two of the tests. No judgement — I’m right there with him — the author started taking anti-depressants for 10 years when he was a teenager. For someone who has suffered a brain injury and awoken from a week-long coma addicted to opiates, and then, off opiates (thank god every day — even though I’m an atheist epicurean) given treatment for brain injury (TBI) and an anti-depressant pill to take, one each day, everything Hari says in this book rings true as a bell:
I believe that placebos work as well as anti-depressants, and that they work only if you are given additional treatment such as talk-therapy.
Good luck to you all. Everyone who read this article is likely on anti-depressants and so I wish you all well. You are good people, each of you, and I believe in you.
