Comments on: FDA Antidepressant Warning has Unintended Consequences

By: Faustino Osentowski

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By: Dr Shock

Dr Shock — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:37:38 +0000

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By: Am Ang Zhang

Am Ang Zhang — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:43:44 +0000

Very interesting. Might put up a post on this topic if it is OK. Thank you. The Cockroach Catcher

By: aqua

aqua — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:48:53 +0000

My experience has been that being in existential trouble does not mean kids/adults are not depressed/anxious. My biggest struggle in my depression has been a search for meanining and purpose. This agonizing search began when I was very, very young and caused, or at least contributed to and continues to cause/contribute to severe depresion and anxiety.

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Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:11:20 +0000

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By: Dr Shock

Dr Shock — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:09:12 +0000

@david @mariana
I’m not sure about the US but in The Netherlands their is no hard evidence of overdiagnosing depression. Overmedicating could also be influenced by the efficacy of SSRIs also in more existential trouble instead of anxiety disorders and depression.
Thanks for your input, kind regards Dr shock

By: mariana

mariana — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:58:47 +0000

it is good for antidepressants to be less used for the population of course. The increase or lowering in their prescription amounts are too hard to understand what they were caused for.

Depression is reaching epidemic proportions and imposes tremendous costs on society. It is a condition that occurs at the interface of the individual and environment. Stress is the primary driver of depression but a host of other causative factors can be involved. One of them that is virtually ignored is the role culture can play in the frequency of depression. The psychologist, Oliver James, has argued that our society is making too many people mentally ill. If the trends in depression incidence are to be believed he may well have a point.

for more: http://singyourownlullaby.blogspot.com/2009/06/depression-and-culture.html

By: David Dobbs

David Dobbs — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:44:06 +0000

A decline in prescriptions and even diagnoses of depression is not necessarily a bad thing — and is a good thing if, as much suggested, we were OVERdiagnosing and overmedicating. In a perfect world, we recognize, diagnose, and properly treat every case of genuine depression — and have zero false positives (that is, we treat for depression only those genuinely depressed). It’s not a perfect world. We will always miss some; we will always erroneously Dx depression in people who have something else. The trick is to constantly correct swings too far in one direction or the other — and to do no harm. We were almost certainly right to pulling the reins on the trend toward higher rates of Dx and, especially, medication.