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generic citalopram, [etc.] ... are as effective and safe as any of them ...
I found Welbutrin to be effective... at causing nightmares.
When are these people going to get a clue about how useless these drugs are, except for generating big profits? Yes, I know they are as effective as placebos, and if a placebo works, that's great for the patient. But I've never heard of placebos causing the long list of serious adverse effects attributed to antidepressants.
The logic does escape me. It didn't work for you and so "these drugs" are only placebo.
In April 2002 the Journal of the American Medical Association (287:14 April 10, 2002, 1807-14) published a study that ... reported that a positive "full response" occurred in 32 percent of the placebo-treated patients, better than the 25 percent positive full response of the Zoloft-treated patients.
"The Emporer's New Drugs: An Analysis of Antidepressant Medication Data Submitted to the US FDA", Prevention and Treatment 5:23 (july 15, 2002)
57 percent of the trials funded by the pharmaceutical industry failed to show a significant difference between drug and placebo"
In 2000, a Psychiatric Times (17:8 August 2000) article concluded: "In fact, when antidepressants are compared with active placebos, there appear to be no differences in clinical effectiveness"
Medically, bupropion serves as a non-tricyclic antidepressant fundamentally different to most commonly prescribed antidepressants such as SSRIs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bupropion
"We analyzed the efficacy data submitted to the FDA for the six most widely prescribed antidepressants approved between 1987 and 1999 (RxList: The Internet Drug Index, 1999): fluoxetine (Prozac), paroxetine (Paxil), sertraline (Zoloft), venlafaxine (Effexor), nefazodone (Serzone), and citalopram (Celexa). These represent all but one of the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI) approved during the study period."