re: Anyone been on SSRI's for 20+ years?

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I've been out smarting people since I was a fetus

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You shouldn't confuse agility with intelligence.

You are not capable of extrapolating the data points or wise enough to even begin to understand brain chemistry. Your opinion and cherry picking of statistics is about on par with poliboard logic and reasoning.

I’m impressed you’re able to drag arse to the social security office for your government benefits let alone use the internet.

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People seem to get better faster and more frequently with SSRI or other antidepressants than placebo

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I don't dispute that because the pills definitely alter your brain.

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The mechanism is postulated but not certain. They are surely over prescribed because people can’t be bothered to do actual mental status exams thoroughly. That doesn’t change the fact that there are people who benefit from them.

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That's kind of my point. It's the same concept of cholesterol medicine. Many, many sufferers of high cholesterol could reverse their problems naturally through diet, exercise, and lifestyle changes, but they'd rather just take a pill everyday. Every single medicine has side effects, and my arguement is that we should be encouraging people to make natural changes to their life, not eat pills for the rest of it.

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And your resounding credentials are? Im using statistics and common human evolution as my basis for opinion. You seem to be using emotion as yours.

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I am a board certified medical physicist that has worked for 35 years in the development of MRI imaging, and functional MRI for use in the diagnosis of neurological disease.

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I am a board certified medical physicist that has worked for 35 years in the development of MRI imaging, and functional MRI for use in the diagnosis of neurological disease.

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In another thread you were a retired Bakker?

Nothing you’ve said could resemble reason.

Opinions and emotional responses after being called a dip shite sure but you don’t even have the intellectual honesty to cite or source any of these statistics and opinions you seem to cling so dear to.

Any doctor worth his salt does exactly this. Encouraging talk therapy (CBT in particular) and mental health hygiene can be first line and should be used to prevent relapse.

The discussion to discontinue meds is complicated, balancing a lot of patient factors. I honestly don’t disagree with your assessment of some people relying on pills too much. I think there are more informed ways about reducing their use though.

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Good thing you’re not a doctor. Also, I suspect his grandfather would be proud of him taking the steps to safeguard his health despite what internet know-it-all’s say.

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Don't even try. Someone who has never had a bout of true clinical depression or anxiety cannot even begin to fathom the hell that a person with it goes through. I suspect alot of the "just be happy you pussy" folks are either straight trolls or have never experienced the terrifying effects of true clinical depression.

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Any doctor worth his salt does exactly this. Encouraging talk therapy (CBT in particular) and mental health hygiene can be first line and should be used to prevent relapse.

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I don't disagree and again, comparing this to cholesterol, I think many doctors just hand out pills for a multitude of reasons. I'm not putting this entirely on patients.

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The discussion to discontinue meds is complicated, balancing a lot of patient factors

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A lot more complicated than starting them. Another reason, starting should be such a thoroughly sought out thing.