I'm amazed - the story on Glaxo-Smith Kline broke yesterday -

[hedgehog]

http://bottomline.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/07/02/12525279-glaxosmithkline-settles-fraud-case-for-3-billion?lite

but I've yet to see a thread denouncing SSRIs and telling people with depression that they just need to buck up and do a little exercise because SSRIs are nothing but placebos foisted on us by Big Pharma!

[Neoma]

1. I get too many side effects for it to be sugar pills.

[elleng]

2. MAYBE you haven't seen a thread denouncing SSRIs and telling people with depression

to buck up and exercise because SSRIs WORK, and 'bucking up' and exercising DON'T (much.)

DON'T confuse efficacy of the meds with dishonest pharma, that's a foolish and serious mistake.

[hedgehog]

3. I agree 100%, but every time SSRIs are mentioned,

it seems there are a lot of people who either think that they don't work and/or there is no such thing as depression.

[elleng]

4. Maybe, but certainly those have no real, relevant experience.

[hedgehog]

5. Again, I agree completely, but those threads seem to come back to life

as often as threads about breast-feeding at the olive Garden while discussing circumcision do!

[mopinko]

6. i was expecting it as well.

and they better not post that shit in here.

[hunter]

7. I'd like to think it's because so many of us are "out of the closet" here on DU...

... and willing to speak frankly about our own mental health issues.

For myself, I think I was most inspired by Tobin S.

But I owe a lot to the rest of you too.