{"id":692,"date":"2017-11-02T18:14:19","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T22:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.centerforneurofitness.info\/?p=692"},"modified":"2017-11-02T18:35:52","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T22:35:52","slug":"the-efficacy-of-antidepressants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.centerforneurofitness.info\/?p=692","title":{"rendered":"The Efficacy of Antidepressants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.centerforneurofitness.info\/Wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/pills.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-695\" src=\"http:\/\/www.centerforneurofitness.info\/Wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/pills.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.centerforneurofitness.info\/Wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/pills.jpg 780w, http:\/\/www.centerforneurofitness.info\/Wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/pills-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.centerforneurofitness.info\/Wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/pills-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A newly published study found that people taking antidepressants felt worse in the long term, than people who did not take any medication for their depression.\u00a0 This study followed 15,000 people over a 9 year period.\u00a0 It seems that antidepressants make the condition worse in the long term.\u00a0 This study, coupled with an earlier study that showed antidepressants, especially SSRI&#8217;s, actually do the opposite of what they were thought to do at the cellular level, shows the ineffectiveness of medication in treating depression.\u00a0 More natural therapies such as exercise, diet modification, psychotherapy, and neurotherapy are more effective, especially in the long term.\u00a0 Both studies suggest that the use of medication for chronic depression may be effective only in the short term.\u00a0 The studies can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spring.org.uk\/2017\/10\/antidepressants-long-run.php\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0149763415000287?via%3Dihub\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A newly published study found that people taking antidepressants felt worse in the long term, than people who did not take any medication for their depression.\u00a0 This study followed 15,000 people over a 9 year period.\u00a0 It seems that antidepressants &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centerforneurofitness.info\/?p=692\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,79,64,72,65],"tags":[6,83,28,27],"class_list":["post-692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-depression-2","category-mental-illness","category-neurofeedback","category-pregnant-mothers","category-ptsd","tag-depression","tag-depression-medications","tag-depression-treatment","tag-neurofeedback"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.centerforneurofitness.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.centerforneurofitness.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.centerforneurofitness.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.centerforneurofitness.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.centerforneurofitness.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.centerforneurofitness.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":696,"href":"http:\/\/www.centerforneurofitness.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions\/696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.centerforneurofitness.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.centerforneurofitness.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.centerforneurofitness.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}