Hi M.i.Lady,
this should be the scientific report (meta-analysis!) you refer to, I suppose.
The whole thing seems to be restricted to a group of "new antidepressants":
http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pmed.0050045
Initial Severity and Antidepressant Benefits: A Meta-Analysis
of Data Submitted to the Food and Drug Administration
Irving Kirsch, Brett J. Deacon, Tania B. Huedo-Medina, Alan Scoboria, Thomas J. Moore, Blair T. Johnson
PLoS Medicine, Feb 2008,5(2),e45....
What Do These Findings Mean?
These findings suggest that, compared with placebo, the new-generation antidepressants do not produce clinically significant improvements in depression in patients who initially have moderate or even very severe depression, but show significant effects only in the most severely depressed patients. The findings also show that the effect for these patients seems to be due to decreased responsiveness to placebo, rather than increased responsiveness to medication. Given these results, the researchers conclude that there is little reason to prescribe new-generation antidepressant medications to any but the most severely depressed patients unless alternative treatments have been ineffective. In addition, the finding that extremely depressed patients are less responsive to placebo than less severely depressed patients but have similar responses to antidepressants is a potentially important insight into how patients with depression respond to antidepressants and placebos that should be investigated further.
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The discussion is open, but let me remind that we must be careful: those data have to be confirmed in such a crucial field like psychiatric pharmacology. Antidepressants work and give dependence sometime: consequently, any stop-and-go in these treatments could be more dangerous than the treatment itself.
Mental illness is a too much serious issue and suicidal behaviour is a reality.
Patients should be given straight forward indications, these 'news' create chaos instead.
ikoD
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