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

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206 points pseudolus | 2 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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potsandpans ◴[21 Nov 25 20:30 UTC] No.46008621[source]▶
Genuine question (which I accept may be too personal to answer): what does depression in someone that young look like?

How is it different from the expected hormonal changes that an adolescent is expected to go through?

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1. potsandpans ◴[21 Nov 25 21:49 UTC] No.46009381[source]▶
It's incredible that my last four comments are down voted to -1, for engaging in genuine dialog across topics.

@dang it's hard to believe that I'm not being brigaded.

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2. amanaplanacanal ◴[21 Nov 25 22:03 UTC] No.46009511[source]▶
My advice as a long time participant here: pay no attention to upvotes or downvotes. Sometimes they seem to be completely unrelated to whatever you said. Stay curious.