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Antidepressants are an important medication.  But the success rates of taking them are now being questioned.  A study in the Medical Journal of Australia has shown them to be ineffetive for 30-40% of people who use them as the sole treatment for depression.  Interestingly, earlier studies were reporting stronger benefit partly because of pharmaceutical company involvement and selective reporting of positive results.

The article goes on to say that in children the drugs can be particularly harmful.  For example you need to treat 10 young people according to them, with an anti depressant to see a meaningful beneficial response in ONE child.  And if you treat 112 young people with the drugs, one will experience harm such as suicidal thoughts or increased agitation.