I’ve recently seen ads on TV, for an antidepressant, that gives us the startling fact that two out of three people who take antidepressants still feel depressed. The ad is for another drug, another type of antidepressant, that you take in addition to your original antidepressant, to help.

First of all, doesn’t this tell you something about antidepressants? They don’t work for heaven’s sake. Chances are a close inspection of all the trials done on the drug before it was released would have found the same thing – that the majority of people who take it still feel depressed, and many of those who don’t would have felt better even if they’d taken a placebo.

If your antidepressant isn’t working, consider more traditional methods of treatment. Exercise helps depression, nutrients, going to a doctor who can figure out if there’s something going on with you physically that may be causing the symptoms of depression. Or just taking a good, hard, honest look at your life and figuring out what’s got you down – stress at work, bad marriage (or even one that looks good but just doesn’t make you happy), not feeling like you’re accomplishing your goals in life, or maybe you’ve lost sight of your goals altogether – there are a lot of reasons to feel depressed about life – and then figuring out what you have to do about it.

Why don’t antidepressants work? Because your problem was not caused by an antidepressant deficiency. Get some help.  Get into an addiction treatment center if you can’t get off them. They’ll help you get off them safely, and help you figure out your life.

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