We don't know if antidepressants work

In recent years there has been considerable controversy about the effectiveness of antidepressants. This issue is very important when we take into account that now doctors prescribe antidepressants for too much people.

One of the reasons that so many people prescribed antidepressants is often not well understood what depression is, sometimes confusing it with being sad or being depressed. However, depression is much more than that, it is a disease that continues over time, affecting the life and physical health of people with this disease, this can last months or even years and may even lead to suicide.

In this regard, there have been numerous studies, however, these studies are conducted by pharmaceutical companies, and because of this, the results are not reliable. There are studies that argue the effectiveness of antidepressants and others who say that psychotherapy is more effective than any antidepressant. What is clear is that psychotherapy is essential in any treatment of depression, but to know how effective antidepressants are, we need more long term serious scientific research.

The most serious problem is the irresponsibility of doctors about antidepressants prescription, because if we don't know the real effect of antidepressants in patients, so they should be more careful about it. Therefore, sometimes a healthy person just is having a bad time but use pills too. All of this don´t mean that antidepressants don't work, just we can´t know it yet.

http://www.theguardian.com/science/head-quarters/2013/aug/15/antidepressants-depression