<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antidepressant" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antidepressant</a><p>The page contains several positive sentences about antidepressants. 3 random examples:<p>- Reviews of antidepressants generally find that they benefit adults with depression.<p>- For children and adolescents, fluvoxamine is effective in treating a range of anxiety disorders. Fluoxetine, sertraline, and paroxetine can also help with managing various forms of anxiety in children and adolescents.<p>- Unlike social anxiety and PTSD, some TCAs antidepressants, like clomipramine and imipramine, have shown efficacy for panic disorder.<p>But most of the page feels doubtful, or even against the use of these drugs.<p>For example, the introduction is really scary in itself. You can read that:<p>- There is an increased risk of suicidal thinking and behavior when taken by children, adolescents, and young adults.<p>- Other researchers also conclude that anti-depressants ultimately do more harm than good, indicating that they cause permanent neuronal damage, apoptosis and disrupt numerous adaptive processes regulated by serotonin.<p>- The placebo effect may account for most or all of the drugs' observed efficacy<p>And all these points are really poorly counterbalanced.<p>I think one could argue the page tends to discourage the take of antidepressants.<p>But still, doctors all over the world are prescribing them.<p>Is Wikipedia accurate here?<p>If so, why are doctors prescribing them?
I heard a lot of takes gravitating around: "pharmaceutical industry makes a lot of money with them, so they push the use of these drugs", but it seems to conspiracy-theory-ish to be true.<p>Is Wikipedia inaccurate here?<p>If so, why? Can we trust Wikipedia objectivity?