Prozac, Effexor or Deroxat.

THE PROZAC and his fellows would not be more effective against depression that ... Sugar! This is the result of a British study published yesterday in the American journal serious online Plos Medicine. " Researchers from the University of Hull (Yorkshire) brought together, in order to compare various surveys published in recent years on several antidepressants in the same family as Prozac, Effexor or Deroxat. But scientists English did not stop there as they managed to get their hands on studies not previously disclosed by the laboratories manufacturing these drugs. The result, after an analysis of all these data on people slightly depressant, the effects of these antidepressants are similar to those of placebo molecules filled with sugar. "Pills of happiness" are significantly more effective than capsules sweet only when administered to severe depression, according to the scale usually used by psychiatrists to establish their diagnosis. "The results of this study are not so different from what France recommends the High Authority of health, Professor Maurice decrypts Ferreri, chief of psychiatry at the Hospital Saint-Antoine in Paris. The drugs should be administered only when there is a serious depression. "When it is light, we must focus on psychotherapy, according to the specialist. When severe - weight loss, inability to leave home, suicidal ideation, and so on. -- Hospitalization or there, we can not do without drugs associated with therapy. "Too many antidepressants are given no reason" "But in practice," the psychiatrist, this is not always the way it is. Too many antidepressants are given no reason to non depression. And too many have not severe depression treatments. Same story on the side of David Servan-Schreiber, author of "Healing" (Robert Laffont). "It has been shown that for mild depression, make a half-hour of jogging three times a week for four months was as effective as medication," said psychiatrist. Similarly light therapy has proved its worth. However, for severe depression, antidepressants are of course essential. "The two psychiatrists advise patients troubled by the study of" Plos "But do not stop their treatment without medical advice. "These are drugs that can create a shortage, warns David Servan-Schreiber. We must not stop on its own. "