because of the other third of the time where it makes your life worse?
we also are cautious about prescribing them to teens because your motivation comes back before the mood stabilization and that increases follow-through on ideation.
Like all psychoactive substances, it varies from person to person. I have been on SSRIs at one point and I just dropped them after months of mostly experiencing just annoying side effects. A friend of mine is okay with them and told me they genuinely help her be functional.
Aren’t ssris like almost placebo levels of effectiveness? Almost like nothing cures depression
there is a cure for depression, but capitalists don’t want you to know about it.
it’s like 1/3 no effect, 1/3 does something but side effects are intolerable, and 1/3 helpful and tolerable
seems unreasonable to me that we make attempts that have less than a 50% chance of expected success
Why? You can just stop taking it if it doesn’t help, so a small chance at an easy improvement makes sense
because of the other third of the time where it makes your life worse?
we also are cautious about prescribing them to teens because your motivation comes back before the mood stabilization and that increases follow-through on ideation.
If it makes you feel worse, you can stop taking it
worse is way worse, you have to taper which is more misery, and kids kill themselves. for a 30% chance at improvement.
i don’t understand how to make it more clear that those odds are garbage and that the bet makes no sense.
Like all psychoactive substances, it varies from person to person. I have been on SSRIs at one point and I just dropped them after months of mostly experiencing just annoying side effects. A friend of mine is okay with them and told me they genuinely help her be functional.