The Real Truth About Antidepressants

If you go to your doctor and complain that you're having difficulty sleeping or maybe sleeping all the time, you're exhausted and lack the motivation to do anything and you're feeling a deep sense of sadness or emptiness and you feel like your life has no purpose....then your doctor will probably prescribe an antidepressant.

But antidepressants don't "cure" your depression or make you happy. They simply mask the symptoms and make you feel numb and spaced out.

Big Pharma is behind much of the research that fueled the theory that depression is a "chemical imbalance" in the brain.

"I'm skeptical about the effectiveness of antidepressants because it's been shown that much of the research was seriously biased in favor of the pharmaceutical industry's heavy 0hand, a fact that has become glaringly obvious in the past decade."

- Richard O Connor, PhD

But it's now coming to light that the research was skewed and that anti-depressants have proven only slightly better than placebos and that depression couldn't be brushed off as a "chemical imbalance" that could be cured by taking a pill.

"We were sold on antidepressants with the idea that they were benign and safe, merely repairing a "chemical imbalance" in the brain, as if they were taking us back to a lost Eden. But there is no chemical imbalance, and the fact is that no one knows how the drug work. And despite the popularity of the drugs, depression continues to grow in epidemic proportions." - Richard O Connor, PhD

Worse yet, the side effects were far more pervasive and serious than we were lead to believe.

Symptoms include: