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Is anyone really suprised at this, IMHO, in many cases getting out, exercise is a big step towards beating this.

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

Anti-depressants' 'little effect'

Woman taking pill (Photo: SPL/file)
Anti-depressant prescription rates have soared

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

A University of Hull team concluded the drugs actively help 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.

A spokesman for GlaxoSmithKline, which makes Seroxat, said the study only looked at a "small subset of the total data available". cont...
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EePee · Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 3:02 pm Post subject:

Any medication has positive & negative side effects.
I think everyone should choose what they think is best for them.
I had a great combination anti-depressant/pain killer/sleeping pill; but am now off all meds because I had too many negative side effects. I use self-therapy, self-improvement, mind change for a healthy, balanced life style. I'd like to add that I have chronic pain.

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