Posted by Cecilia on June 24, 2012, at 0:24:36
In reply to Re: Antidepressants Safe Effective For Depression, posted by Phil on June 23, 2012, at 15:30:47
> ""Are there, in those averages, some people who never would have been suicidal where the medicine had a paradoxical effect and for the first time they thought about suicide. These studies are not meant to answer that question," he said."
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> Oh please. When someone says they are suicidal for the first time ever you don't make a note of that? This guy was paid a lot on this one.Does anyone believe there are ANY people diagnosed with depression who have never even thought of suicide? I sure don't. Maybe I'm wrong, but I think most people, whether they are diagnosed with depression or not, have at least thought of suicide at some point in their life. They probably aren't going to tell their doctors, because they don't want to end up in a psychiatric ward, and of course if they want to be in a clinical trial they know they won't be accepted if they mention suicide. Doctors are clueless. And of course the ones running the clinical trials are particularly clueless/and or being extremely well paid. They seriously try to pretend there is such a thing as a double blind placebo controlled trial with psychiatric meds, even though I can guarantee that, given the side effects of most meds, the overwhelming majority of patients, and probably even some of the clueless doctors, know whether the patient is on the placebo or real drug.
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