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Before you put your adolescents on antidepressants, let's have you make sure they are getting all the basic micronutrients they need for their brains to work. You can absolutely initiate nutritional therapies and feel good about that decision. 🧵
There is an extensive evidence base to support its use. "In the study of 478 young adults, it was found that 100 mg of vitamin B6 per day over just one month significantly reduced anxiety with trends towards reducing depression."
Thanks to @JGreenblattMD for sharing this information to other professionals via his email list at PsychiatryRedefined.org
#depression #treatmentresistantdepression #anxiety #nutrition #functionalpsychiatry #mentalhealthmatters
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hu…
#depression #treatmentresistantdepression #anxiety #nutrition #functionalpsychiatry #mentalhealthmatters
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#Antidepressants seem effective in the clinic but not in controlled studies. Why? Let’s consider all possibilities. @PeterDKramer @AllenFrancesMD @DrHowardLiu @DalackMd @blackdoginst @NAMICommunicate @Got_Anxiety @EikoFried @PsychTimes @matthewckeller @RiadhAbed1 @APAPsychiatric 
Most of us who have prescribed antidepressants for thousands of patients have heard hundreds of them report transformed lives. “It is as if I walked out of a dark room into sunlight” “All of a sudden I can experience pleasure again”
But perhaps the effectiveness is an illusion. The improvement of patients taking #placebo is barely better than that for those taking antidepressants.
Here are 10 reasons why antidepressants
->Could seem effective when they are not, or
->Could seem ineffective when they are
Here are 10 reasons why antidepressants
->Could seem effective when they are not, or
->Could seem ineffective when they are
