Types of anti-depressants:
https://familydoctor.org/types-of-antidepressants/
Explanations of the meta-analyses reviewing experiments on the effectiveness of anti-depressants:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2412901/
and:
Dr. Insel discusses the complicated nature of research on the efficacy antidepressants.
www.nimh.nih.gov
There's this mythological belief that somehow everybody is physiologically diverse to the point that there can be no generalized procedures or practices on people. Especially on diet, exercise, and mental health. This belief is quite unfounded, and anti-thetical to science.
Yes, there may be marginal variations, or other complications that require the foundation to be tweaked for special cases. But we're all the exact same animal, and you're not that special (speaking ambiguously). Pisses me off when someone spews that "do what works for you" bullshit.
"The difference between drug and placebo became large enough to be clinically important only in the small minority of patient populations with severe depression (baseline score exceeding 28 in the study population). Even in these severely depressed patients, the difference between drug and placebo was due to the fact that placebo became less effective; there was no evidence that the antidepressants became more effective. The authors concluded that most of the benefit from antidepressants is duplicated by the placebo effect."
