Medication offers little help to patients with mild, moderate depression

Only people with severe depression benefit from antidepressants, says a study to be published in the Journal of the American Medical Assn. Antidepressant medications likely provide little or no benefit to people with mild or moderate depression, a new study has found. Rather, the mere act of seeing a doctor, discussing symptoms and learning about depression probably triggers the improvements many patients experience...

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