The entire stated benefit of antidepressants according to dr

Note the stated benefit does not make adjustments for the half dozen+ pro-drug flaws*, and biases* in the short term corporate studies.

In meta-analyses of corporate short term studies (the most pro-drug biased* studies available) the benefit of drugs marketed as antidepressants is "mean improvement was 9.60 points on the HRSD in the drug groups and 7.80 in the placebo groups, yielding a mean drug–placebo difference of 1.80 on HRSD improvement scores"(1). In the HRSD scale answering that you are mentally ill is a 2 point improvement(2).

Literally, according to the corporations selling these drugs if you agree you are mentally ill you've had a larger improvement then then entire benefit of the drugs.

Another way to achieve the entire drug benefit is to gain weight. Seriously, psychiatry considers causing obesity to be a "fix" for depression/anxiety.



*List of most of the pro-drug flaws and biases: withdrawal in the placebo group, active placebo effect, psychiatrist instead of patient rating, miscoding negative effects, publication bias, using other drugs to hide negative effects, short term time length, conflict of interest bias, and cherry picking the starting patients.



(1) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2253608/

(2) https://dcf.psychiatry.ufl.edu/files/20 ... ESSION.pdf