Posted by Fallen4MyT on January 3, 2005, at 0:59:35
In reply to Re: SSRIs vs Placebo.... PLEASE READ, posted by Dan Perkins on January 3, 2005, at 0:01:47
The way I look at it is the people on these meds ARE the test trials subjects. I have known this on the longest running trials for many years. I have always refused to take a SSRI in part due to this
> I'll tell ya, what disgusts me the most about this is not that the responses are so poor (though that does disgust me too) but that the longest running trials we have on the efficay of SSRIs are 6, 8, and 12 weeks long.
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> I mean, WTF, these drugs have been out for over a decade and that is the best we can do!?!? I don't know anyone who has been on an SSRI for as short a period of time as 12 weeks.
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