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What Doctors Often Don’t Tell You About Antidepressants | Dr. Josef Witt-Doerring
More than 11 percent of Americans take antidepressants, including rising numbers of kids and adolescents and even pregnant women.
The majority of Americans believe that depression is linked to a chemical imbalance in the brain, and that drugs can fix this imbalance—just as someone with Type 1 diabetes might take insulin. But that’s not true, according to board-certified psychiatrist Josef Witt-Doerring.
“There’s never been any evidence that there’s been a chemical imbalance,” Witt-Doerring says. “There is no way to differentiate patients who are depressed from those who are not depressed…
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