But not necessarily for everyone. That's why you have (hopefully) large double-blind studies.
Like treating heart disease or cancer, treatment is complicated and must be tailored to the patient.
My ambivalence comes from seeing people who literally walked into the doctors office and said "I want prozac|zoloft|etc", and the doc said "OK" and wrote the script. No therapy, no examination.
Hell, one friend of mine was on SSRI's in college. Not that she was depressed, she just didn't want to be the ONLY girl in the Sorority not on an antidepressant.
It's well established to be biological problem.
I can't agree with that. I'm speaking more of depression than bipolar (which I have almost no personal experience with), but until we can actually diagnose for it - accurately, and through blind studies, I'll have to remain skeptical.
But I do know that people - such as you - disagree strongly based on their personal experience. And I can't gainsay you - either I'm not affected by the depression, or I deal with it in a different way. That's the problem with problems in the brain. Thus my ambivalence.
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But not necessarily for everyone. That's why you have (hopefully) large double-blind studies.
Like treating heart disease or cancer, treatment is complicated and must be tailored to the patient.
My ambivalence comes from seeing people who literally walked into the doctors office and said "I want prozac|zoloft|etc", and the doc said "OK" and wrote the script. No therapy, no examination.
Hell, one friend of mine was on SSRI's in college. Not that she was depressed, she just didn't want to be the ONLY girl in the Sorority not on an antidepressant.
It's well established to be biological problem.
I can't agree with that. I'm speaking more of depression than bipolar (which I have almost no personal experience with), but until we can actually diagnose for it - accurately, and through blind studies, I'll have to remain skeptical.
But I do know that people - such as you - disagree strongly based on their personal experience. And I can't gainsay you - either I'm not affected by the depression, or I deal with it in a different way. That's the problem with problems in the brain. Thus my ambivalence.