Antidepressants work, so why do we shame people for taking them? | Mark Brown

A new mega-analysis has found in favour of SSRIs. Time to give people who take them a breakBritish society just cannot get comfortable with the reality of medication for depression. Despite widespread use, they still attract disapproval. New research appears to strike a decisive blow against widely publicised claims that antidepressant medications such as Prozac, a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) are no better than sugar pills for people with depression.Elias Eriksson, professor of