On: Prozac 'no better than placebo' for treating children with depression, experts

[konmok]

Every medication can have severe and permanent side effects, the question is how often that occurs for a particular drug, and how that stacks up against the quality-of-life improvement from taking that drug.

[piperswe → konmok]

And whether patients are properly informed of the risks (I was not)

[BjoernKW → konmok]

> Every medication can have severe and permanent side effects

SSRIs are by an order of a magnitude worse than any other common medication in that respect.

Moreover, like I said there's little evidence these drugs actually achieve any quality-of-life improvement beyond a placebo effect.

[ckw → BjoernKW]

SSRIs are very bad, but antipsychotics are worse. There are many other reasons, but a demonstrative one is that there is a cumulative annual risk as high as 7% of developing a permanent movement disorder when on them.

[phatskat → ckw]

TD is no joke!

It was really hard for my ex to have to choose between anti-psychs and the potential side effects, or exceedingly strong paranoia with incredibly lucid hallucinations - I did not envy her position