The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
It’s also possible if you take one of those agents, that in fact, it’s not going to help you. That happens a lot. Now, what you don’t know in fact, is that by it not helping you, you know... So if you look at these studies where what happens is if you don’t respond to an antidepressant, most the time if down is good, you just stay the same. But if I’d given a sugar pill, you would have done much better, right?
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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So there’s a group of people that really do well with antidepressants. And by ‘well’ here, what I mean is that they were really coming apart with depression and now, you know, couple or three weeks later, they feel like they’ve got their life back. They feel better. They feel fantastic.