The Failure of Prozac

I saw this breaking story first in the UK papers....It seems that the US newspapers were very late on this crucial news regarding psych drugs:

The UK Independant newspaper reported:

They are among the biggest-selling drugs of all time, the "happiness pills" that supposedly lift the moods of those who suffer depression and are taken by millions of people in the UK every year.

But one of the largest studies of modern antidepressant drugs has found that they have no clinically significant effect. In other words, they don't work.

The finding will send shock waves through the medical profession and patients and raises serious questions about the regulation of the multinational pharmaceutical industry, which was accused yesterday of withholding data on the drugs.

According to the UK Guardian:

Prozac, the bestselling antidepressant taken by 40 million people worldwide, does not work and nor do similar drugs in the same class, according to a major review released today.

The study examined all available data on the drugs, including results from clinical trials that the manufacturers chose not to publish at the time. The trials compared the effect on patients taking the drugs with those given a placebo or sugar pill.

When all the data was pulled together, it appeared that patients had improved - but those on placebo improved just as much as those on the drugs.

"Given these results, there seems little reason to prescribe antidepressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients, unless alternative treatments have failed," says Kirsch. "This study raises serious issues that need to be addressed surrounding drug licensing and how drug trial data is reported."

Newspaper The Financial Times is also running a story on this.

For more information on the horrors of psychology, I suggest going to Psychology Debunked
and Psycho-heresy Aware.

The best thing for any person who is dealing with depression or stress is to turn to Christ Jesus and repent of their sin. Only the Creator knows our deepest issues and in His Word He tells us how we are to think and do:

Php 4:6 do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. 7 And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Php 4:8 Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

If you are not Born from Above, trusting in Christ Jesus alone for salvation from your sin and God's wrath, you need to do so now. It is ONLY in Christ and through Christ that a person can fully lay down his worries, anxieties, concerns, a pain, and trust in the Sovereign God to care for him in every way. The God of Scripture is an all-wise God, knowing our secret sins and our deepest pain, but there is only one way to deal with them: trust fully in HIM. He is the God of all comfort (2Cor. 1).

Psychology will fail every time because its starting point is doctrines of demons centered on sinful and rebellious man. Truth starts with Jesus Christ who is the only Truth (John 14:6), and His Scripture which is Truth (John 17:17). Better to know the Truth and deal with the sin and pain, then to live the lies of psychology which is demonic and poisonous.