--- In [email protected], Sal Sunshine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 5, 2005, at 10:57 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > > The whole purpose of scientific research is to avoid having to rely > > on anecdotal evidence. I've never taken any anti-depressants, > > That's obvious. > > > > > Your comments about only over-prescribed anti-depressants being > > responsible for either lack of results or negative results is not > > supported by the research. >
> Utter nonsense. So where's the research supporting your claim, Sunshine? > > > The fact is, talk therapy is just as > > effective as anti-depressants for making people feel better > > temporarily > > More nonsense. I've noticed when you cite, it's usually from journals > that have little or nothing to do with anything medical. That's very funny, since the citation I offered was clearly medical research conducted at the University of Pennsylvania and Vanderbilt U. In fact, > anti-depressants have helped millions, whether they believed they could > do any good or not. Your placebo effect theory has no basis whatsoever > in reality. > You clearly are invested in the notion that anti-depressants have helped you, and that's OK, but you are just not making rational responses to the American Psychological Research I cited which clearly shows that so-called anti-depressants are no more effective than placebos: http://www.journals.apa.org/prevention/volume5/pre0050023a.html > > (in the long run, only transcending thru TM could > > possibly make one feel better -- depression means a lack of > > experience of one's nature, bliss consciousness): > > It must be nice, I guess, to live in some alternate reality in which if > you repeat something over and over, it magically becomes true. Or > something like that. Sunshine, that land of alternate reality is clearly yours, not mine. When you get off the Prozac, please feel free to resume your practice of TM. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
