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The doctor-patient relationship is critical to the placebo effect.
There seems little reason to prescribe anti-depressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients.
To someone who is not currently on anti-depressants, I would suggest trying other treatments first - for example, psychotherapy.
If you're taking an antidepressant, it's working, and you're not experiencing side effects, go on taking it. But if it's not working... →
Perhaps anti-depressants should be best reserved for the very extreme cases and, more importantly, for those who do not respond to alternative forms... →
The one thing we do know is that the chemical imbalance theory - the theory that people get depressed when they don't have enough serotonin in... →
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