Posted by blueberry1 on December 29, 2006, at 18:17:16
In reply to After the hype, posted by linkadge on December 29, 2006, at 11:22:29
I think the TRUE measure of antidepressant efficacy...REMISSION...RETURNING TO ONE'S FORMER SELF... would make the numbers go way down. Unfortunately they don't rate antidepressants that way. Instead they usually use 50% improvement. 50%? That sucks. Or sometimes they use 'much improved' or 'very much improved'. But even then, that is not the same as remission. Define efficacy by remission and I bet the success percentage would drop to about 10% to 20%. Just a guess.
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