Are drug makers oversimplifying depression? “Makers of antidepressants skirt, and sometimes cross, that line by telling consumers that depression is caused by a lack of serotonin and that their pills help boost levels of the brain chemical.
They offer Zoloft as one example, quoting a TV commercial that claims depression is a medical condition that may be due to a chemical imbalance, and that, ‘Zoloft works to correct this imbalance.’
The problem is that depression isn’t nearly that simple.”
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