AlterNet: Health and Wellness: Moody Is the New Bipolar

AlterNet: Health and Wellness: Moody Is the New Bipolar: "The reality is that when patients report Prozac, Paxil, or Zoloft as 'working,' it is not because these drugs are correcting any kind of chemical imbalance. These drugs can temporarily 'take the edge off' -- as is the case with many psychotropic drugs, legal or illegal. But for a significant number of people, these drugs produce extremely unpleasant side effects, while for many others, these drugs have little or no effect. So, overall, the difference in effectiveness between antidepressants and a sugar-pill placebo is 'clinically negligible.' This was the conclusion of University of Connecticut professor of psychology Irving Kirsch, who used the Freedom of Information Act to gain access to 47 antidepressant studies sponsored by drug companies on Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft, Effexor, Celexa, and Serzone that had been submitted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (but many of which had not been published). Kirsch discovered that in the majority of the trials, the antidepressant failed to outperform a sugar-pill placebo."

A very good article about the farce we call "Mental Health Care." Millions of people are getting doped up with drugs that are no better than a sugar pill, and the pharmaceutical industries, Government policy makers, and metal health "professionals" are laughing all the way to the bank... Meanwhile, they are working feverishly to manufacture new diseases and drugs to sell to the unwitting public.