Was having an email conversation with His Nobleness over the weekend, and we got onto the subject of Anti-Depressants.

It’s always been my position that they CAN have value, but only if they are backed-up by hardcore work to get to the root-cause of any problem. When they’re mixed, when the patient is constantly bombarded with “try this one then, try this one then”, their brain chemistry is just getting screwed-around and no-one knows the true damage that this can cause.

The brain is not like the Liver; self regenerating, self cleaning.

So it was with some interest that I read this article today in The Age, which states, in a nutshell:

- Prozac and other antidepressants are little more than placebos

- The drug companies (surprise, surprise) tend not to publish the results of drug trials where the drugs do sweet F-A.

The question I have is this: Why is anyone surprised?