Depression is a mood disorder that causes significant loss in interests and intense feelings of sadness. This disorder is crushing, and next to impossible to deal with on your own. Medication may be needed to fight off the mood disorder. It is not uncommon for a person to be prescribed antidepressant medication. In fact, one in ten Americans take an antidepressant. Plenty of Americans take these pills as a part of their morning routine. These pills are a lifeline for someone who is clinically depressed. I am one of these people. I take Zoloft each morning with my cup of coffee. For me, Zoloft has worked wonders on my behavior, mental state, and happiness. However, many wrongfully educated people argue that these medications are ineffective. Physicians around the globe argue that depression medication is a controversy and that people prescribed are being deceived by pharmacies and drug companies.
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These doctors who claim that my medicine does not work have most likely never been prescribed to antidepressants. The skeptics have more than likely not been through what I have and they don’t know what it feels like to be depressed. Dr. Mark Hyman explains, “... Antidepressants don't work... the pharmaceutical industry and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have deliberately deceived us into believing that they DO work….” in a recent medical study he performed on antidepressants’ potency. His findings are inconclusive in my opinion. He claims that “...they don't work and have significant side effects. Most patients taking antidepressants either don't respond or have only partial response.” My success story proves his theory of the medication to be false. Depression is a severe mood disorder that calls for medication, and any person suffering deserves relief. I hope that any person who is fighting depression finds happiness through the help of an antidepressant like
These doctors who claim that my medicine does not work have most likely never been prescribed to antidepressants. The skeptics have more than likely not been through what I have and they don’t know what it feels like to be depressed. Dr. Mark Hyman explains, “... Antidepressants don't work... the pharmaceutical industry and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have deliberately deceived us into believing that they DO work….” in a recent medical study he performed on antidepressants’ potency. His findings are inconclusive in my opinion. He claims that “...they don't work and have significant side effects. Most patients taking antidepressants either don't respond or have only partial response.” My success story proves his theory of the medication to be false. Depression is a severe mood disorder that calls for medication, and any person suffering deserves relief. I hope that any person who is fighting depression finds happiness through the help of an antidepressant like