Cochise
Priest of the cult of the Dog with the Broken Paw
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Anti-depressants don't work for some people, sometimes you have to try different varieties. I accept they didn't work for you. They certainly work for me though and for millions of other people, helping us to function at a higher level than would otherwise be possible.
I've been through the whole gamut on this. I entirely accept that everyone is an individual, but for me the anti-depressants actually made me more depressed, indeed deeply detached and irrational. I look back on some of the things I did and said while I was on them with shock and embarrassment. There needs to be much closer follow up on those who are prescribed these drugs which after all are mind-altering.
Any of these approaches (as well as "scientific" medicine) can induce a placebo effect. Whether or not a beneficial outcome counts as a placebo effect depends on whether the decisive intervention affects the real cause of the malaise.
But presumably physical and neural effects/causes can be measured and identified? So we should know for a fact whether the alternative approaches can help or not in those cases (I think not, if that's not clear from my earlier posting).