Chiropractor In San Diego Reviews Groundbreaking Study Noting Anti-Depressants May Be No Better Than Placebo
As a chiropractor in the San Diego area, I see many people suffering from everything from back pain to stress and more. Researching some of the latest studies helps me help my patients in many ways. And since pain being a common reason for depression, I find the following article fitting.
Napoleon Hill, author of the self-help bible "Think and Grow Rich", is quoted as saying: "What the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve." He also said we become our dominant thoughts. Research is showing he may be 100% accurate with those statements... especially the latter. Here is why: Starting in 1998, studies began to raise questions about the "scientific proof" behind the widespread use of Anti-depressants versus placebos.
Irving Kirsch and Guy Sapirstein, researchers from the University of Connecticut, found that both Anti-depressants and placebos got results. With the 38 studies conducted with over 3,000 depressed patients, placebos showed to have improved symptoms 75 percent as much as prescribed medications.
During an interview with Newsweek in 2010, Kirsch remarked "What's going on?" The medical community was skeptical of his findings, asked him to redo a more comprehensive study with the results of all clinical trials conducted by antidepressant manufacturers, including those unpublished - 47 studies in total.
Over half of the studies showed no significant difference in the depression-alleviating effects of a medicated versus the placebo pills. With this more thorough analysis, which also included strategically unpublished studies from pharmaceutical companies, placebos were shown to improve symptoms 82 percent as much as the real pill.
According to the Citizens Commission on Human Rights International: "However, if experts and antidepressant manufacturers are aware of this, the general public certainly isn't ... Millions of people every year feel better, simply because they believe they'll feel better."
Napoleon Hill, author of the self-help bible "Think and Grow Rich", is quoted as saying: "What the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve." He also said we become our dominant thoughts. Research is showing he may be 100% accurate with those statements... especially the latter. Here is why: Starting in 1998, studies began to raise questions about the "scientific proof" behind the widespread use of Anti-depressants versus placebos.
Irving Kirsch and Guy Sapirstein, researchers from the University of Connecticut, found that both Anti-depressants and placebos got results. With the 38 studies conducted with over 3,000 depressed patients, placebos showed to have improved symptoms 75 percent as much as prescribed medications.
During an interview with Newsweek in 2010, Kirsch remarked "What's going on?" The medical community was skeptical of his findings, asked him to redo a more comprehensive study with the results of all clinical trials conducted by antidepressant manufacturers, including those unpublished - 47 studies in total.
Over half of the studies showed no significant difference in the depression-alleviating effects of a medicated versus the placebo pills. With this more thorough analysis, which also included strategically unpublished studies from pharmaceutical companies, placebos were shown to improve symptoms 82 percent as much as the real pill.
According to the Citizens Commission on Human Rights International: "However, if experts and antidepressant manufacturers are aware of this, the general public certainly isn't ... Millions of people every year feel better, simply because they believe they'll feel better."
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