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Study highlights difficulty of stopping antidepressants

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Not a good time to stop, some antidepressants were found to be very effective against covid!

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Not a good time to stop, some antidepressants were found to be very effective against covid!

Not really, data that weakly indicated this was found but the data contradicts the alleged mechanism of action, there is no dose dependent effect and several confounding variables have already been identified (patients that are not depressed, because of any reason, do better; patients with better care, including diagnosis and treatment of depression, do better, etc.) Without a properly randomized trial the evidence is still terribly weak for antidepressants.

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I think there are other answers besides drugs.

We belong to the animal kingdom. You know the rhyme: kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species. I wonder if depression is common across the field.

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Not a good time to stop, some antidepressants were found to be very effective against covid!

Depression has been observed and is strongly believed to suppress in some measure the immune response. If these observations are correct, the mechanism of action is unknown. That 'depression' is also a stimulus to suicidal ideation is quite well known but, again, the direct mechanism of action is unknown however intuitively obvious such 'explanation' may be perceived. If 'depression' is essentially caused by a 'mismatch' between the individual and their 'milieu', it may be a 'low level' evolutionary mechanism for passively removing elements which cause disturbance in the operation of the social milieu that may make the particular social group (e.g. 'country') containing them to be more vulnerable to destruction by a less conflicted social group. The destruction of one social group by another is the MOST salient behavior in Human biological history and the internal operations of a 'successful' as opposed to 'unsuccessful' (extinct) social group are completely unknown at this time albeit one of our most discussed subjects.

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