A recent review of studies concluded depression is not caused by a lack of serotonin in the brain. But this doesn’t mean antidepressants, which work on serotonin, aren’t effective.
- Head of the Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne
While it’s important to increase the diagnosis of depression and find a treatment plan that suits the individual, simply writing more scripts for antidepressants isn’t the answer.
The increasing placebo response rate in depression is likely driven by an increasing expectation that treatment will work.
Many adolescent pressures are age old, others newer, such as having followers on social media.
So you’re depressed. You know this because a health profession has told you so, or because there is no mistaking the symptoms. Perhaps you’ve been depressed before. What now?
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