On: The Mystery of When to Stop Antidepressants

[DanBC]

> Further confused that a huge percentage of people who suffer depression need no meds and instead need a thyroid test

You can't say things like "huge percentage" without citation.

[jfoutz → DanBC]

10% of the us population on antidepressants, even 1% is 350,000 people...

According to this [1] about 12 million people have a thyroid problem and don't know it. (maybe a bad source?)

Given there's no test for depression, and it's a pretty unreliable judgement call [2], it's a pretty reasonable claim.

[1] http://www.thyroid.org/media-main/about-hypothyroidism/ [2] http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/706714