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Stop Using Antidepressants Except for “the Most Severe Depression,” Experts Say

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Take, for instance, a recent meta-analysis finding that exercise is just as good as antidepressants at treating mild to moderate depression —and that adding drugs to the regimen does not improve outcomes. They found that half of the antidepressant trials found no beneficial effect for antidepressants compared with placebo.

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Do Critics of Biological Psychiatry Have an Alternative to a Life of “Whack-A-Mole”?

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Psychiatric News reported in 2024 that PubMed shows more than 400 trials of ketamine as a depression treatment in the past decade; however, it also reports that G. The same disregard for the scientific method that establishment psychiatry evidenced in standard antidepressant drug trials is now evident with ketamine.