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The King Saud University researchers, like most who conduct these kinds of analyses, admit in their paper that "long-term studies evaluating the actual impact for pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions on these patients' quality of life is needed."\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>The findings do build, though, on a growing sense of skepticism in some corners about the status quo of depression treatment. Last month, writer PE Moskowitz made a similar case in The Nation that highlighted serious side effects in many people who take antidepressants and particularly SSRIs, writing that "we deserve a fuller picture of both the benefits and dangers" of the medications.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>"A wave of research suggests that the drugs are less effective and more dangerous than many previously believed," Moskowitz wrote. "And some medical professionals are concluding what until recently felt too heretical to say out loud: Antidepressants may often cause more harm than good."\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cpicture class=\"image-align-left\">\u003Csource srcset=\"https://cdn.quasa.io/photos/photo/28_10/pills.webp\" type=\"image/webp\">\u003Cimg alt=\"New Study Claims That Antidepressants Don't Lead to Better Quality of Life\" class=\"image-align-left\" height=\"225\" src=\"https://cdn.quasa.io/photos/photo/28_10/pills.jpg\" width=\"300\" />\u003C/picture>Much of this nascent study and criticism of antidepressants is predicated not only the fact that there's no established mechanism for how and why depression happens, but also scholarship suggesting that the once-prevailing "chemical imbalance" hypothesis holds much less water than it did even 10 or 15 ago.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>Ultimately, research on whether antidepressants are effective — nevermind whether they're worth the often-intense side effects they can come along with — should, as the King Saud researchers wrote, be oriented towards helping people.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>"The long term-management of depression needs to be further evaluated in an efforts to improve the ultimate goal of care for these patients; improving their overall quality of life," the paper concludes.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>Thank you!\u003Cbr />\nJoin us on social networks!\u003Cbr />\nSee you!\u003C/p>","new-study-claims-that-antidepressants-don-t-lead-to-better-quality-of-life","2024-10-27T13:09:17.000000Z","2024-10-28T11:00:00.000000Z","28.10.2024",{"image":82,"image_webp":83,"thumb":84,"thumb_webp":85},"https://cdn.quasa.io/images/news/6hxckWrAP0CpiB8KUCi19MHDT1nklfyba7osExBL.jpg","https://cdn.quasa.io/images/news/6hxckWrAP0CpiB8KUCi19MHDT1nklfyba7osExBL.webp","https://cdn.quasa.io/thumbs/news-thumb/images/news/6hxckWrAP0CpiB8KUCi19MHDT1nklfyba7osExBL.jpg","https://cdn.quasa.io/thumbs/news-thumb/images/news/6hxckWrAP0CpiB8KUCi19MHDT1nklfyba7osExBL.webp","small",null,1130,7,"en",0,{"id":42,"title":43,"slug":44,"meta_title":93,"meta_description":94,"meta_keywords":95,"deleted_at":87,"created_at":96,"updated_at":97,"lang":90},"Quasa media blog about growth hacking in Tech","All the most interesting and useful about technologies. 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