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Prozac 'no better than placebo' for treating children with depression, experts

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206 points pseudolus | 3 comments | 21 Nov 25 00:02 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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lemming ◴[21 Nov 25 01:33 UTC] No.46000215[source]▶
Our 11 year old daughter was seriously depressed recently. N=1, but fluoxetine was life changing (and potentially life saving) for her, at least.
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1. thebigspacefuck ◴[21 Nov 25 02:32 UTC] No.46000589[source]▶
Placebo can be life changing
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2. biff1 ◴[21 Nov 25 02:55 UTC] No.46000716[source]▶
Nocebo can too. Apropos the featured article, I wonder if we should worry about that when we report in the popular media that antidepressants trigger suicides.
3. abraxas ◴[21 Nov 25 20:23 UTC] No.46008560[source]▶
Absolutely. These random namedrops of drugs are irritating. People respond to different psychiatric medications in wilddly different ways. And actually, the majority do not respond at all. Throwing a random name of some random medication helps absolutely nobody. It will just make some desperate people seek "this one drug" that they heard about on the internet.