Do Antidepressants Actually Work?
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- Depression is a complicated illness and the main form of treatment comes from antidepressants, but how do they work?
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As someone that is currently taking antidepressants I noticed a difference almost a week into my current prescription. I'm not overly happy or depressed. I just feel blaaaa. I like it compared to how I was before, I have more control over my emotions and am able to get through the day
+J.J. NOX yea I got the same effect
+J.J. NOX Why do you think you needed them to begin with? Did you have a hard child hood, born this way? Just curious. I know this is a personal question, but i assumed since you posted you would be okay to post more in depth detail.
Do you stop having dreams when you are on the medication? I don't have any dreams when I'm on mine and when I forget to take them, the dreams come back. I could still be having dreams but I don't remember them when I wake up.
+J.J. NOX I had that happen, and I changed medications, and that part went away!
+rift0tripper I didn't think I needed them for a long time, I thought I was just made at the world or something. My childhood didn't have any physical abuse; however, I had more mental things to deal with. Also, depression runs in my family. Ultimately help was forced upon me on my 3rd suicide attempt and I'm better for it.
I just dont get why i am depressed. I have a good life but just dont want to feel right now
so like... it’s been 4 years... you good now? 0-0
this is literally me..
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Depression is a clinical disorder
I have major depression, and as soon as I went on my antidepressants, I noticed immediate change. I am much happier and energetic, and I have a much more positive outlook. When I forget to take them I slip back into my depression and I have bad withdraw symptoms, so I know they're working. They don't work for everyone, but they certainly work for me. Also, different people react differently to different pills so it's important to try different ones. Depression runs in my family, and we all found a pill that works for pretty much all of us who are affected. But trust me, they do work- I probably wouldn't be here without them.
You can't live your life depending on pills to carry you through.
@@harryshome4588do you hear yourself? So it’s best to avoid treatments and meds and live a miserable life? There isn’t a cure so one has to be on treatments.
Great info!!
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In my experience they do work, in the sense that they are like pain killers - they make you feel less bad but they don't address the root cause. It's important to remember that these medicines are blunt instruments, I feel they should be used while you go though therapy so you can address the problems in your life.
so true! medication is just one part of treatment. therapy is very important along with proper diet, exercise and stress relieving hobbies like art, yoga, music or animals
+Rebecca Apostoli Absolutely. It's important to remember that these medications are not "fixing a fault". There is nothing wrong with mental illness, depression and anxiety are normal reactions to stress and can be cured by making changes to your life and beliefs.
+Calum Findlay its not always natural. my depression hit me like a bus, literally over night. I woke up from a night terror.
+Calum Findlay I don't know that there's a way to address the root cause as such. We don't know enough about the brain to go making permanent changes to someone's brain chemistry (either how to do it or what the aftereffects might be), and we certainly don't want the end result to be the chemical equivalent of a lobotomy.
+Kool Beens I apologise, I was talking from my personal experience. It's important to find a balance when talking about anti depressants. I feel like the narrative that depression/anxiety is a chronic illness that you cannot recover from held me back from making progress for a long time, because it already fed into my beliefs that there was something wrong with me and that I couldn't cope. I came believe that because it was caused by a chemical imbalance, I had been born to feel bad and I had no hope of getting better.
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The best way i could describe depression is for some reason being unable to remember good things and having no drive to do activities
This was less "Do Antidepressants Actually Work?" and more "How SSRI's are theorised to work in the body"
Why didn't you bring up how antidepressants/SSRIs actually make you emotionally numb and apathetic?
Kind of sounds okey considering all i feel is pain now anyways.
Ha nice username, and I feel the same In a way. I matured thur sadness and depression, leaving me mature yet less likely to laugh. I don't think it will be bad for me until I see the affects.
Being depressed makes me emotionally numb and apathetic anyways
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absolutelly. I was on SSRIs for over 4 years and felt no better, just more apathetic. Before that, I was depressed, but I would work, I would go out and have projects that would take forever to get done, but at least I felt like doing them, even if slowly. With the SSRI i feel like I lost a lot of the Social Skills I already was lacking
Can you do a video on seasonal depression?
+Ben Palmer Yes they can, and they also did.
+Ben Palmer We've done a few videos on this already! Here's one about S.A.D. czcams.com/video/1JryKWSCL1E/video.html
+Ben Palmer it's called Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), actually
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While suffering from depression for practically my entire life, one odd benefit I find is that it makes me feel more altruistic towards others with they're problems. Maybe because I can more easily empathize with how bad people can feel. Then again, misery loves company.
If they don't know how antidepressants work, how come they know all about synapses, neurons, electrical currents, reuptakes, etc. and show video images of the brain at work and what antidepressants do ..??? Explain that to me !!
I took something similar today, I got through the day without over thinking and thinking crazy thoughts, which make me go mad. To be honest, I felt happier, I walked and noticed the trees and lights more than the people passing by. I do not know what exactly I have since I haven't seen a doctor, but all I know is that I think things that aren't real, I think of killing people I get angry over, or simply think bad things in general, which cause me to think the world and even my family is against me, even though my family loves me. If I have to take meds, which will cause my life to shorten let's say from 40 more years to 20 years, I'll gladly take it for the sake of being happy and keeping my sanity.
I'v been taking antidepressants for what feels like 3 years now. I'm definitely a lot better than I was before taking them, but 5 times a day I'll have random moments where I feel really depressed but then after a while my mood will go back to normal. It's like a roller-coaster ride, it just goes up and down every so often.
I'd love to have kids someday but because of genetics I think I'll do them a favor and not have them be born so they wont have to suffer through this bs.
My stand point too.. but have had two before coming down with depression
Really glad they made this video. I just recently went off my antidepressants I've been on them almost my WHOLE life, now that I'm off them I feel nothing, but it's only been a month. Sometimes medicine doesn't help and only makes it worse but not for everyone.
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Why is this music so tense? Long term damage from stress hormones cause depression...
I always thought they just mask the problem and don't deal with the actual problem. It's like a painkiller for your brain.
Nope. They correct hormonal imbalance. They're more like a cast for a broken bone.
+Taydra Cole no meds like this dont work the same way for everyone. personally, ive only ever seen them act as a "painkiller", but thats just my experience
+Taydra Cole they're neurotransmitters, not hormones. All the drugs do basically is flood the brain with a neurotransmitter that makes you feel good, but without the high you get from other drugs. The drugs are therefore typically useless for curing and this is why CBT is done along side, to correct negative thought patterns by encouraging the growth of new neural-pathways. CBT doesnt need drugs to work, it just succeeds more with them because the individual has more motivation because of the drug.
+Steve Ozone well thats wrong
+A Koala with Shades is correct. AD's work on neurotransmitters, but they don't change the structure of brain. they also don't help create more serotonin, dopamine, epinephrine, etc. they merely prevent your brain from absorbing once it's released. it's a band-aid, not a cure.
When I was a child I was put on antidepressants and I became very suicidal when I want before. Soon after they took me off of them I've been better sence.
since.
I heard starting with a high dose can do this to kids! Apparently starting with a low dose is essential for not having suicidal thoughts!
Antidepressants destroyed my life
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Yes.
I've been diagnosed with chronic major depression, and have been on and off SSRI (anti depressants) since I was around 15. It was not a light decision, but we knew there was a possibility of it genetically.
It was very hard. I first struggled with Paxil for a few years, but I found that brand did not work with me. All it did was bring my drive and motivation down, and stabilized me too low.
After some experimenting with my doctor I found Celexa works wonderfully. I've been on it for around 5 years (with only one or two periods of bad pill behavior), and I can say I absolutely feel better on it.
When I'm not on my meds, I can feel my mind start to turn sour. I can see the change day by day as my imbalance returns. It takes weeks, and it's very hard, including violence, extreme sadness, mood swings, intense dizziness, sleeping for 10-12 hours a day and still feeling tired, inability to eat (or eat properly), headaches, hypertension, and on and on.
It's different for everyone, because everyone's mind has grown in a unique way, with different base genetics. But they do work.
Probably one of the most interesting comments iv'e seen in here.
Hii
Update: The reason I was depressed is due to bi polar 2. Once I got on bipolar medicines my depression all but went away. Sometimes it comes back but only for a short while.
I've been taking ssri's for about 2 years now for anxiety. Anecdotally, I've had positive results. After roughly 6 weeks of being on them my mood had improved. I've felt generally happier as well. Do your research, but I've found little disadvantage for taking them. Again, anecdotally, they're awesome. The issues that bothered me, (my health, school, work,etc), have significantly less impact on my life now. Your brain is the product of hundreds of thousands of iterations of nature trying to sort out loose ends, made up of meat and physics. I have to imagine it's difficult to get it totally right. Do yourself a favor by getting your doc's input.
When I've been on them they did make things different. Even though I felt better I was aware it was the pill doing it. Maybe if I stayed on them long enough and learned I should feel that way it would help but then what happens if I stop taking them? Good feeling withdrawals? It's been a long time, I've learned to live depressed. You live for a while and then you die. No need to be happy about anything.
Well aren't you just a ray of miserable sunshine?
When you're depressed you often feel numb.
Death is also pretty numb.
Life gives us a chance to experience more feelings than just numbness, and thats a very solid reason to be happy while you still got your time on earth.
:)
How's your diet? These pills, as you know, blocks reuptake. They do not generate the chemical. If your brain isn't generating the chemical, the pills won't work. Idk if that's even possible, but I was depressed once and that's the best explanation I have for it. My diet was the only notable variable, and those chemicals have to be made out of something.
+qqq1701 if your depression is caused by chemical imbalances in your brain that the pills can correct, why is that a bad thing? So what if the pills are helping, that's what they're meant to do. Your outlook is not good.
KnightRaymund
It was quite literally taking pills to get high. My "high" might only bring only bring me up to an average persons "normal" but it was still a mood altering drug I had to rely on to try to feel good. In the grand scheme of the universe and all of time me feeling happy doesn't matter one bit.
antidepressants are not a cure-all for depression and mental illness.. I wish DNews would practice a more responsible approach to talking about treatment. you never mention the very real negative side effects of treating depression with pills, and also that medication is only one part of a complete treatment plan. Therapy, diet, exercise and stress-reducing activities are just as important when treating people with depression.
+Jesse Green yes definitely agree with you there. I can only speak to my own experience and what I've observed, which was a medication-only plan and it failed spectacularly. I realize my experience is not the same as everyone's. I had a combination of biochemical and emotional causes so that was why i needed additional help.
+Jesse Green I agree. Last resort for me too, and the ridiculously expensive therapy visits are not helping me. But here in The Netherlands you're only allowed to get these meds while you're seeing a therapist.
Rebecca Apostoli im doing all of these and specially bodybuilding and alot of cardio it dont do shit anymore, it helped the first 5-6 months, i started my diet 4 months ago and lost 20 pounds of fat but still got alot of anxiety and depression, im guessing Nofap is my last option
Rebecca Apostoli The pharmaceutical industry wants people to believe that. It is very profitable.
True almost like Advil for dealing with pain find the root cause of the pain and attack it not make excuses
Everything I've tried has had side effects that caused more problems than the depression itself. The side effects would show up first, for example, two weeks into one I'd have suicidal thoughts for no reason (shut that one down real quick) or in the case of another, it would kill off any possibility of a descendant. Still others gave intense and lucid dreams that had a tendency to affect my waking moments, another put me into a dreamland I couldn't easily get out of. So, I'm not a good candidate for antidepressants. However, with this in mind, I am a candidate for the Most Expensive Machine in the Hospital that uses magnets that a superhero would be scared to approach, but I'd have to go there a few times a week for two years for it to be effective.
Lately, I'm not on anything, and while it looks acceptable from outside, I'm not even close to 100%. I'm not confident that chemistry is the way to treat mine, as I don't want a repeat performance of one particularly nasty drug that made me feel like I drank a 12-pack on a half dose. I don't mind feeling drunk, so long as I actually drink the beer.
Doctors are always quick to prescribe another pill that doesn't work, so I gave up on them, too. It may be something I just have to deal with :(
Here in Britain we still have trouble fully accepting the (popular in America) disease model of depression. It actually tends to be counter-productive to think of depression as a biological disease, especially that the research on this topic is extremely divided. It causes doctors to give people pills en masse instead of addressing the real reason behind depression, which is the patients pathological behavioral and cognitive patterns. SSRI's help, but only if coupled with CBT therapy.
I took prozac and it helped me by making me more numb. So it didn't really help at all. I slowly stopped feeling a normal range of emotion but I still thought about suicide on a daily basis. I felt a great amount of literal pressure on my middle chest area and it felt like a knot of sadness that I couldn't shake. I stopped taking prozac and I currently take 5-htp and marijuana. Now that I'm okay most of the time I realize that I was much more depressed than I thought when I was on prozac. if you're depressed I'd recommend marijuana and 5-htp but of course everyone's body reacts differently to medication.
Prozac blocks reuptake of serotonin (etc.) when it has triggered the good feeling so the drug will continue to trigger good feeling impulses. As this happens over and over again until the drug wears off there is a much larger reliance on it than a one hit happy pill. This means withdrawal is a lot worse and should only be consider on extreme cases. (Oh yeah GCSE Biology B 😎😎😎)
How's your diet? I ask because THC replaces neurotransmitters to do a similar job but with a different effect, whereas antidepressants block reuptake, which does nothing about generating the neurotransmitters if none are present. Since these neurotransmitters need to be made out of something, I speculate that maybe diet is to blame.
I'm on Prozac and I'm great. It's different for each person. I would recommend trying different antidepressants until you find one at works well with your body. Unfortunately, many people have to try many different medications until they get the right one for them.
+George Cataloni I'm positive I don't have a healthy enough diet. I wasn't able to eat many fruits it vegetables because I was very very poor. I'm still too poor to ear healthy and I know that sounds horrible but I am working on being able to afford to eat healthy by next month. Luckily I eat at work (I work at a dining hall at a college) and am able to eat as much fruit and vegetables as I can. I'm also vegetarian (mostly vegan) which I know can have a negative impact on mental health. This year the goal is to balance exercise, meditation and diet to help my mental health. any books or helpful information would be appreciated.
Raven Wilson I don't have books or anything like that, but i do know that neurotransmitters are created from amino acids. Just speculating, but you could just need more protein.
While I do support the use of psychopharmaka I am a bit worried by the fact that they can be prescribed by medical professionals, who weren't trained in neurobiology specifically. Even Psychiatrists who should be the experts on mental disorders and the medication to handle it can go through their whole education without even once learning about the biological make up and function of a human brain. While I do not think that it is absolutely integral for the prescribing doctor to understand the exact "mechanics" of a certain substance it is frightening to think that they are able to prescribe medicine for disorders they don't fully or even remotely comprehend (for instance GPs as well as Psychiatrists who follow a freudian approach). A correct diagnosis seems rather unlikely under those circumstances much less a complete one.
truth. also the system of kickbacks from big pharma to doctors who prescribe their pills has created an artificially high rate of diagnoses I'm America. a lot of them children and young adults whose brains aren't even done growing yet.
+kindAhumaNbeinG well depression and why these help isn't fully understood by anyway. Does that mean they shouldn't be prescribed? Are you saying every case of depression needs to be referred to an expensive neurologist with mile long wait times?
KnightRaymund
No, I don't want to say that they should not be used. However, I do think it's a reason for concern that medication that alters the biochemical state of ones brain can be prescribed by professionals who are not necessarily trained in mental health and/or neurobiology. Even worse, it is still common to find Psychiatrists or Therapists who follow obsolete and/or disproven theories. So despite they have the abillity to write a prescription and determine a diagnosis they might not be qualified to do so properly.
So my "beef" is not with ataractics but that they aren't always prescribed by capable hands. It's one thing to screw up a diagnosis (which is bad enough although I see how it can happen especially when we're talking about mental issues) but another cup of tea if the wrong medication gets prescribed afterwards.
As an example: Almost any doctor can give his patient Benzodiazepines to "treat" sleeping disorders even for long term use based on the patients anamnesis without the obligation to do a proper physical tests. It is hard for a well trained mental health professional to distinguish types of sleeping disorders (psychosomatic, somatic ...) let alone for a GP who most likely wasn't thoroughly educated on the subject.
Which is why I do see reason for concern when it comes to medication for mental health issues. Not because I don't agree with it's value but because as of now, it's "handed out" without proper precautions, examinations and sometimes even gets prescribed long term without a profound diagnosis. The downside of this isn't only the risk to medicate people who would not need it or to medicate them for longer than needed but also to miss underlaying causes for the mental issue if there are any other than psychological (for instance, disorders of the endocrine system, neurological problems which could be fixed...).
However, all this has an upside. I do believe it is incredible important and absolutely correct to use medication without extensive tests in emergency situations. There are certainly cases in which it makes sense to first prescribe moodlifters, tranquilisers and such beforhand and then go on the "hunt" for the cause.
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Great video. A bit more fact checking about how electrical signals and neurotransmitters work may be useful. Overall very informative.
Thanks for making this video.
I think you pronounce synapse wrong.
I am not a fan. I was prescribed many different antidepressants and the only thing they ever did for me was cause me sexual dysfunction and directly contributed to my first bipolar/manic episode. Thanks antidepressants!
rossmwi you still has sexual problems?
Antidepressants aren't good for bipolar disorder. It basically adds rocket fuel to it, sometimes even triggering an episode or making it worse.
Effexor destroyed my life. Jesus is rebuilding it.
Agree
I agree completely
I'm actually withdrawaling from Paxil right now. I ran out of my medication before my appointment and my psychiatrist refused to fill it. Paxil made me feel just blah and eh. The withdrawal symptoms though are the worst things ever. I get hot and cold flashes, confusion, "zaps" (electrical shock feelings in my arms, head, feet), insomnia, not wanting to eat, nausea and a lot more. Before considering starting an antidepressant research, research, research. If I knew I was going to be withdrawaling this badly, I would've never started this medication.
Thank-you for this. Awareness and education are the key to acceptance. Depression runs in my family and certainly didn't skip me and I have to live with other people's ignorance.
yep there great, every time i try come off them i feel like necking myself
I mean if you feel like necking yourself in the first place..............
No wonder when I get depressed I feel dumb.
There is definitely a stigma. I never had an anxiety disorder, but it runs in my family and I also happen to be sensitive to drugs that affect mood. So in 2008, I had a bad reaction to a birth control pill that caused me to have panic attacks. They lasted two and a half weeks, and stopped as quickly as they started. But this last year, I had a toxic reaction to an antibiotic called metronidazole. It caused me to temporarily lose the ability to walk, speak and caused the worst anxiety of my life. My doctors refused to believe the drug could do this, so marked it off as part of my "anxiety disorder." Did my own research--turns out it was LESIONS ON MY BRAIN. My doctors misdiagnosed me as have an anxiety disorder when it's actually brain damage. They thought I was just being "dramatic."
That makes sense. I feel like I'm able to do more than I could before. I take Citalpram and it is a very helpful tool for me.
That's a misleading statistic, because antidepressants are not only prescribed for depression treatment
Glad you brought this up. I suffer from migraines and headaches on the daily and my neurologist gave me an anti depressant.
and is it working for you?
+Paulo Suazo yes
Kayla N can I buy anti depressant at wal mart or Walgreen?
This is a very serious issue and needs to talked about and studied to help those who need it.
That said, am I the only one who saw 5-HTT and thought for just a second it said 5HIT?
I wish there were a website, or if there is that I knew what it was, in which you could look up your doctor and see whether they get payments from pharmaceutical companies to prescribe medications, and specifically the medications they prescribe you. If I had that information, it would really impact which doctors I see and whether I agree to take those medications (mostly psychological medications).
One issue is, "seeing Depression as a illness."
When it really is a complex set of emotions coupled with loneliness due to prolonged emotional fatigue, in part thanks to a on going anti-social behavior we have in place these days, where people generally think and are told that only "phycologists" and other forms of Therapists can help such individuals with depression.
What a lot of people fail to see is, without help or direction to any positive end in sight from those that should be closest to us, things don't get better, drugs are like a Band-Aid and anyone that knows anything about leaving a band aid on for too long it does more harm then good.
and in the end will cause problems for human life as a whole, after all we are social animals and when we stop being social and helping each other, problems ensue for all of us.
+RedXuchilbara Bingo, the best way to treat depression is to rely on a strong social network. Ironically most depressed ppl are so, precisely because such a network is weak or absent.
ElectricQualia and most "Phycologists" proscribe drugs above proscribing having others they can relate to and talk to.
after all they want you to talk to them about your problems, not other people.
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+RedXuchilbara not really, i have friends and a boy friend but I'm still depressed.. and that's kind of insulting, what does that say about introverted people? I'm introverted, yes i have friends but i usually prefer to be alone in the comfort of my own home. true being around friends makes me happy, but i have had moments of depression even around friends. depression is a mental illness, its stuck with me for life and the only way i can suppress it is to take my antidepressants. just like my A.D.D. depression is with me for life, that's just how my brain is wired. unfortunately. i can't keep hanging out with friends and being social just to keep me from being depressed, cause than i just end up exhausting my energy. introverts tend to lose more energy socializing while extroverts don't lose energy at all from it.
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well I guess everyone is different in that regard, I know the source of my depression is external, and when I found the source that alone made me feel better, and working on the problem also has made my depression drop over the years,
though its still there due to years of neglect, from family being jerks and treating me like it's on in my head, when really it was there abuse that brought it on. drugs never helped me ether it just made my depression much worse.
RedXuchilbara I guess it depends on the cause of depression. If the causes are just mere brain chemistry or genetics, then yes it is an illness in every sense of the term. If not, it is more a symptom, that can develop into an illness.
I've been on anti-depressants for three years. I started them when I started having suicidal thoughts. Three years later I'm feeling great and only have emotional disturbances when I forget to take my medication. I only feel lethargic when I do not take my pills at the same time everyday. Other than that they allow me to feel human again.
Most of the people ive ever met who said they were depressed weren't actually depressed they were just lonely or sad. Which isnt the same as depression. Do a video on the difference between sadness and depression.
This is so relatable. I hate when people self diagnose depression and anxiety.
Kayla N Except when it actually is depression and anxiety. Some people can't take the pressure of opening up to their gp and a therapist, sadly these people get mixed into a group people who suffer only from teen angst.
I know the feeling, however always be open to the possbilety that the one you are talking with might actually have a depression. Becaus they might actually have. i once told some mates that i was actually depressed and all they did was tell me not to be edgy and get my shit together.
For me, anti-depressants only worked for a while before I grew tolerant and either needed to have my dosage upped or switched to another med.
Julia, What is the evolutionary advantage/purpose of gaps between the synapses. It seems that the signals crossing the gaps would be faster and there would be less "loss of data" if they were directly connected.
I refuse to take them. I don't like them
+Naruto Uzumaki good for you.
I'm going to be hokague one day
+Naruto Uzumaki how do you know that you don't like them if you don't take them.
+NinjaBallista lmao, thats not even how you spell it xD idk why i laughed so hard at it
+skoda10 I did try them I just felt worse, like I couldn't feel anything.
I took them on and off
Many of antidepressants
They never made me feel zombie nor empty like most people experienced
They just made me in a better mood and more optimistic that's all
But they didn't help with my fatigue low energy and motivation
And sleeping for long hours
Also they cause me to sweat a lot and low libido,
so they really don't work much on me, and i am trying to figure out other methods.
Ive been thinking about getting on antidepressants for a long time now, the sweat and libido thing doesn't really matter to me becaus i have no sexlife to begin with. And i bath alot, and for long.
But would you say it's worth it?
FOR DNEWS: One small thing you might not have caught while editing; depression is not an illness, as it is part of our mental being and emotions. Other than that you guys are doing an awesome job at keeping up with everything. I've been a follower for a while btw c:
It's a mental illness
It’s an illness Aidan. Depression isn’t just being sad. It’s a neurological disorder.
as a med student i can say this gr8 video 👍
why not just smoke weed? - impossible to die from
Truuuuu
+凸(¬_¬)凸 why you so angry? You need to smoke some weed bro. It'll make you happy
+connorbnelson this shit was probably laced with something.
I once saw somone getting stabbed to death with a sharpened blunt.
Incredibly effective? We haven't been reading the same meta-analysis.
***** It's not one study, it's a massive meta-analysis of most published and especially unpublished data on four different antidepressants (Kirsch 2008). Psychiatrist's ¨clinical intuition¨ is not scientific. At the very least, I can tell you I have tried no less than 5 different antidepressant, and none of them did anything.
***** You'd be surprised at the recent studies tending to confirm the ¨dodo bird¨ theory of psychotherapy: that what really matters is the quality of the therapeutic alliance and the nice personnality of the psychologist and that the actual form psychotherapy takes is of little importance. In fact, much like with any other mental disorder, depression has no know official causes, and without knowing the causes of a problem it's hard to come out with a treatment that is really effective on a consistant basis. The best they can do it throw everything but the kitchen sink at the problem until something finally seems to stick a little, then run with this for a couple of decades, until something else seems to stick a little more etc. The actual research on antidepressant is gravitating towards ketamine and moving away from ssris while antipsychotic medication research is moving away from the dopaminergic model in favor of working on glutamate.
If you are depressed and you are tacking/considering tacking anti depressants I highly recomend you read up a little on weed and depression and how smoking marujuana compares to anti depressants.
Weed(aslong as it's used responsibly and in moderation)can have even better effects than anti depressants and I dont mean just while the high lasts,but in general well beeing and mood(yes,even when you are not high).
It also has dramaticly less side effects(if you use a vaporizer/eat it,there is practicaly no side effects),cant possibly be overdosed,could be cheaper(depending on where you live)and is less adicting(it's actually less addictive than substances like alcohol and coffee,still a word of cation,people who have poor dicipline and self controll can get "addicted" to it in the sense that they can start using it every 1-2 hours and become really unproductive and even than no long term health issues should arise).
I want to point out that the purpose of this comment is for YOU to read up,do your own research and maybe consider replacing anti depressants with weed to see how it works for you,I am not telling you to go out right now,get high and hope that would magicly solve your problems,it wont.
Weed should be threated like acohol in my opinion,a small glass of wine after a hard day at work is considered healthy,weed is the same way,a small hit every other day to get you relaxed and sleeping well can be great for you.
But just like beeing drunk all the time is deffinetly not good for you,same with beeing high all the time(although to be fair atleast beeing high for a week non stop wont have any long terms effects,you ll just have a really lazy week is all).
Depression is so varied that a psychiatrist must know all the types and subtypes of it, as well as all the effects of the various antidepressants to be able to really help a patient. My version of depression is mixed with anxiety and OCD-s, so he chose escitalopram (Lexapro for Americans). Good choice overall, and it worked in killing the pulses of negative thoughts that assaulted me throughout a day. But it also causes wakefulness surges. Bad, because I'm a fragile sleeper.
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Depression may just be a temporary chemical response some problem in life , to which the person couldn't find an escape.
I recommand people should try essencial oils . Because they act on the first cause of depression , which is anxiety .
Oranges essencial oil as an example . There is a great variety of them . These oils should be injested & smelt (double field of action) . Better combine diffrent oils.
Antidepressants work better when combined with some oil such as oranges essence.
I hope this can help.
I think I've just listened to a Wikipedia article, I didn't know DNews made audiobooks now!
anti depressants are horrible...you trade feeling bad for feeling nothing at all. Eventually you forget what it's like to feel anything. We are supposed to feel things....even the unpleasant things. Face your problems instead of pushing them away. It's the pushing away at things that gives them any power over you. Depression is just as valid an emotion as joy, learn from it...don't hide from it.
Joseph You are telling me to go suffer, feel sad, and potentially kill myself? No, i rather be emotionally numb than feel like shit.
You don't sound like someone who knows anything about depression at all, there is a difference between common adversary and depression.
Altough weather or not antidepressant are worth it is still a concern.
You can’t shake depression off though in a lot of cases
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Here on the East Coast, some plants are budding and sprouting flowers because of our above average temperatures in December. How will this affect the plants in the future?
It would've been nice if you covered the dangers to about 5% of users where the meds makes the depression worse or even leads to suicide ideation or psychotic breaks. In the US I believe there was a congressional investigation after the pharmaceutical and psychiatric experts ignored the sudden spike in violence and suicides in recent teen users (in the late 90s if I remember correctly).
Also (and this may have been outside the scope of your video) it would have been nice to make the point that studies show CBT and lifestyle changes have a marked affect on depression around equivalent to meds. I only bring this up as I was proscribed Prozac but after about 10 days of taking it, it led to auditory hallucinations and I began to get suicide ideation which was not a problem when I was prescribed the meds (I was prescribed it for an anxiety and stress disordered that had led to sleeplessness that was diagnosed as 'depressive episode'). After a switch to Zoloft I didn't sleep for days and resolved it myself by taking a quarter of the adult recommended dose.
Now that I have dealt, many years later, with my stress and anxiety my 'depression' has lifted completely. Regular exercise is beneficial as well.
I achieved a similar result by following the Mood Cure and daily exercise. focusing on things I enjoyed like music and art also helped so much. I couldn't really start my healing until I was off meds though.
A great video explaining antidepressant. But another question is whether true or not that if you're taking antidepressants for too long, you can't live without it? Or you're dependant on it. Thank you.
Most people complain about the ineffectiveness of antidepressants because they view these medications as magical pills, with the power of transforming everything overnight. Well, it can take up to several months for an AD to have a good effect on a patient, an for that reason it's so important to stick with your treatment, and undergo therapy as well, if at all possible, to see a significant improvement. To those that are in this situation, I'd like to say: don't give up on your treatment, be patient, take your meds even if you take they're not helping, try to exercise, and engage in some form of creative outlet such as painting, writing, sculpting, cooking, anything. Exercise helps depressed patients to a gigantic degree.
I'm on Wellbutrin and it works so well that I'm kind of worried. I thought it takes weeks to kick in.
I did take antidepressants for some time, it did make me less sad but it also made me less happy. It places you in a limbo where everything feels the same. It also makes it really hard to focus since the limbo. I would say its making things worse.
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Could you do an explanation video on the long term/short term effects of MDMA/ ecstasy on the brain??
I learned this last week in psychology class.
This is a great topic. And will like affect many of the viewers. Right now we are using sledgehammer drugs and hope they fix the extremely complex problem and more research is definitely needed. All of that being said sometimes any tool is better than no tool. I just hope research leads to a much better solution soon.
Well i've been taking strattera for 8 months (prescribed for add) and i don't feel any difference at all. I prefer Ritalin or Venlafaxine, they help improve my mood and concentration.
Yeyyyy, question got featured! Thanks DNEWS :)
I used to have anxiety disorder. Ever since taking antidepressant medication I feels like I just came back to life
Which medicine did you used?
what happens in our body when we get into the "Zone". you know that positive feeling where you do an activity really well.
Well, from my expierience I can say that they made me feel better (regarding my mood), but the side effects are really hard to put up with.
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I used to be involved with stuff like this in Canada. I miss it. I hate not having any motivation to pursue the dreams I built. oh well. at least someone out there is doing it
Id say they do for me, It stops most suicidal thoughts. I recommend that if you dont feel a difference, then request a higher dosage per pill.
can you do a video about generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) would help a lot
My sister was bullied 5 years ago at school she had depression so the doctor prescribed to it an anti depressant and for 5 years she has been taking it but its a pretty high dosage. Now she is good in the morning but in the afternoon its like she is having a bad trip/think someone will kill her and also think (her brother) is going to kill her. I've lost all hopes we changed meds numerous times but still the same. What should i do ?
These drugs can cause phycotic episodes not that people ever talk about it
I suffered from severe depression for...ugh, like 8 years at least. Prozac REALLY helped me. Give meds a chance, it might save your life (Although it's not for everyone, try other antidepressants with your doctor if they don't work for you)
How many weeks u recover
yeah i have been having depprestion alot thanks for the infomation ill ask my docter
Is galantamine an antidepressant too?
I have depression and tried 3 or 5 different anti- depressants and none of them worked. They were all different classes.
I've been doing well on Citalopram (generic Celexa) for a about a year and a half now.
Do the reporters here actually research the topics? Or do they just read lines?
Great video! xx
I've been on various AD medication for over 6 years. non of them seem to work for me. I had CBT too. Nothing worked. Perhaps because of my psychosis that I can't feel happiness or many emotions, or socialise very well.
I feel you! I was on Paxil for 8 years and it never addressed the root causes of my depression. if anything it was a distraction and covered up the biochemical as well as emotional reasons I was suffering. I wish my doctor had referred me to a therapist first and maybe a nutritionist before going the medication route.. I think I would have been fine..instead SSRI's fucked my brain and emotions up for most of my late teens/ early 20's. still recovering now at 32.
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yup, busy trying Latuda atm. It's an adventure.
Hey can we talk about how even when you're taking these pills it's really important to meet regularly with a psychologist. And while the pills are helpful, if you're taking them as a teenager keep in mind that most teens deal with some sort of depression and antidepressants do change your brain chemistry. If your brain is still growing around these new changes it might grow in a way that the antidepressants become part of your brain and you need them just to feel normal. So yeah, they do help a lot of people but they are drugs and I don't think teenagers (unless it's the only thing that will save them) should take until their brain is fully developed (23-27). This is the same for people on ADHD pills and any other pills for mental health. We need to look at the person before we treat the problem.
How long did it take you to recover from antidepressant withdrawal? I'm now 7 months off a AD & I'm completely bed bound, depressed, & agorophobic
I came off Prozac and well I'm extremely depressed compared to a couple of months ago when I was on it. Probably going to go back on to it.
Chris Porter Thanks for your comment. What about the theory of letting your body heal from the damage of the drugs?
I think that if it comes down to permanent sadness / depression or some side effects i would rather the side effects.
Dave Moore Are you feeling any better yet? I hope so. :-)
such an epic video!
How do Anti Anxiety meds (benzodiazepines) work?
Better explanation than Webmd! Thanks Dnews!
why are my ptsd symptoms and episodes drastically different from others. in TV land and in the news I hear about very strong actions taken when a person comes to their reaction point, but mine seem so much more mild and I deal with everything internally rather than expressive to the public.
I can deal with depression without drugs. But its when I get into those really deep lulls and start seriously considering suicide. That's when I think its probably a good time to consider antidepressants.
can you do a video on nerve injuries ?
There's a lot that this video does not address.
On the Pro medication side: There are other types of drugs in the antidepressant class, primarily tricyclics and MAOI's. These work with the brain in different ways than SSRI and SNRI's in order to treat depressive symptoms. Secondly, it should be noted that practitioners focus more on "symptoms reduction" and coping rather than "curing" since it is very difficult to say when, if ever, a mental illness is "cured." FInally, there's also other physiologically based methods of treatment like ECT that non-responsive depression can be treated with. Exercise is also as if not more effective than antidepressants in some cases for various reasons.
On the Con medication side: There are studies demonstrating that antidepressants do not work, or are not clinically significant compared to placebo. Here's a citation for one study and one book on this topic.
Kirsch, I., & Sapirstein, G. (1998). Listening to Prozac but hearing placebo: A meta-analysis of antidepressant medication. Prevention & Treatment, 1(2), 2a.
Kirsch, I., Moore, T. J., Scoboria, A., & Nicholls, S. S. (2002). The emperor's new drugs: an analysis of antidepressant medication data submitted to the US Food and Drug Administration. Prevention & Treatment, 5(1), 23a.
Similarly, depression is not purely biological. There are more often social and emotional factors that generate and maintain depressive symptoms that medication cannot alleviate like marital problems, social isolation, or low self-esteem. Psychotherapy, especially CBT, is often shown to be more effective at treating depression than medication alone.
This is primarily because clinical psychologists have more familiarity with mental illness and treatment. All of the coursework that MA and PhD/PsyD students take is in psychology, mental illness, and therapy. Psychiatrists only need 1 class (gen psych) and do not need specialized training in clinical psychopharmacology (which is their profession). Psychiatrists also are not trained to provide therapy, only manage medication. On top of all of this, General physicians, who have no training in psychology or psychopharmacology, are the primary persons who prescribe medication, and they do nothing in order to check whether or not the drug is having any affect on the patient's depression.
Lastly, most people who take antidepressants do not report being "happy." Instead, they say the drugs make them feel like a zombie, dead, and "foggy" when they try to think. Mental health is not the absence of sickness as it is general medicine, but the promotion of well-being. Psychotherapy helps a person to live happily, while medication impedes on a person's ability to live happily.
Great video
ah that explains why i got memory loss at age 7 and lost 76% of my ability to cry also at age 7
Frozen anger / trauma = depression
I honestly don't understand why we often separate the self from the body when they are one in the same. We cannot blame depression soley on a random act of biology but a result of a chain of potential factors. These factors can include biology, culture, family, social factors such as friends and lovers, etc. This is why it's important to often visit both a physician and a mental health professional(s). Depression, especially if chronic, can form negative habits that can create a cycle of depressive feelings. Which require careful guidance to break.
#AskDNews how is it accents form around the world ? like with american/british/australian
My depression is due to panic attack, i badly need an advice please help.
Antidepressants is like death sentense to me before taking them i was happy i just had some phobia but now i cant do anything and im sad and no more hopes in life i wish i never took them
Do i have to live like this forever ?