This is saying, "Actual psychiatrists have known this for nearly twenty years, so there's no reason for it to be making news and no one should care." :so-true:
Ok but people seem to be taking this study to mean that ssri's don't do jack shit. If the people who prescribe them knew about this and still prescribe them then they still probably do something.
Good point. For many people, myself included, SSRI's don't do jack shit. I understand that they help a lot of people. It just sucks that they're always the first line of treatment that professionals I've seen go to (and in my childishness I stop seeing them and get no treatment whatsoever).
One possible interpretation here is that "depression" is a cluster term that describes symptoms rather than pathologies. Something similar is true of (among other things) psychosis, which is a symptomatic cluster that can have a broad spectrum of proximal causes.
Philosophy of mind isn't my specialty, but I know enough about it to have a strong suspicion that in another few decades, we're going to view diagnoses like "depression" similarly to how we view 19th century diagnoses of "hysteria" now: clusters of symptoms that were complex, multifarious, and socially influenced in both etiology and appropriate treatment.
This is saying, "Actual psychiatrists have known this for nearly twenty years, so there's no reason for it to be making news and no one should care." :so-true:
Too bad fuckin no one else seemed to know this.
Ok but people seem to be taking this study to mean that ssri's don't do jack shit. If the people who prescribe them knew about this and still prescribe them then they still probably do something.
Good point. For many people, myself included, SSRI's don't do jack shit. I understand that they help a lot of people. It just sucks that they're always the first line of treatment that professionals I've seen go to (and in my childishness I stop seeing them and get no treatment whatsoever).
One possible interpretation here is that "depression" is a cluster term that describes symptoms rather than pathologies. Something similar is true of (among other things) psychosis, which is a symptomatic cluster that can have a broad spectrum of proximal causes.
Philosophy of mind isn't my specialty, but I know enough about it to have a strong suspicion that in another few decades, we're going to view diagnoses like "depression" similarly to how we view 19th century diagnoses of "hysteria" now: clusters of symptoms that were complex, multifarious, and socially influenced in both etiology and appropriate treatment.