I found this part of that article quite interesting,
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The original study began in the late 1990s, when antidepressant makers started testing the drugs in young people. Antidepressant trials are an extremely tricky enterprise, in part because anywhere from a third to more than half of subjects typically improve on placebo. Choices about how to measure improvement — and how to label side effects — can make all the difference in how good a drug looks.
It goes to show how sensitive humans really are behaviourally, and that the actual process of getting care and treatment is enough in itself to reduce symptoms/stress, along with what they think or feel about the treatment. Also suggests that proper therapy and support should always obviously trump drug intervention, unless the case is more serious.
This post was edited by Psychonautica on Sep 21 2015 11:19pm