'A shocking study that should have received serious attention from the press and doctors seems to have been ignored. It documents that the death rate of depressed people who take antidepressants is, on average, 1.6 times greater than those who don’t take them.
The respected journal, PLoS ONE, published the study in June 2010. It will come as no surprise that there was no pharmaceutical money funding the study. Performed in Australia, the study followed 5,276 men aged 68-88. It’s certainly true that depression can result in suicide.
The death rate of those diagnosed as depressed is significantly greater than others, and that mortality increases with increasing severity of depression. Those points were the authors’ focus. However, the study also shows that the men who are depressed and take tricyclic, SSRI, or any other antidepressants die at a significantly greater rate than those who don’t.'
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