Nymogenous comments on [LINK] Antidepressants: Bad Drugs... Or Bad Patients? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Nymogenous 05 January 2012 01:05:37AM *  2 points [-]

This is especially true for antidepressants because some are only effective on more severe cases (eg Zoloft); self-selection will yield a body of faux-depressed and mildly depressed people on whom the drug has no result.

EDIT: Apparently I was thinking of a different drug.

Comment author: calamondin 06 January 2012 04:14:54AM 0 points [-]

Zoloft has actually been found to be one of the better drugs for cases of mild chronic depression ("dysthymia").