Challenging the Antidepressant Severity Dogma?

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By Neuroskeptic
Jan 19, 2012 7:33 PMNov 5, 2019 12:14 AM

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Regular readers will be familiar with the idea that "antidepressants only work in severe depression".

A number of recent studies have shown this. I've noted some important questions over how we ought to define "severe" in this context, and see the comments here for some other caveats, but I'm not aware of any studies that directly contradict this idea.

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