http://www.psycheducation.org/bipolar/controversy.htm
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Antidepressants in Bipolar Disorder: The Controversies
(revised 8/2009)
This page has been maintained for nearly 5 years. Unfortunately, most of the controversies below remain controversial. I even had to add one, controversy "zero", when new data arrived suggesting that antidepressants may not really be effective at all in bipolar depression.
The bottom line overall here: antidepressants may carry much more risk for people with bipolar disorder than is generally recognized. That antidepressants can cause "switching", bringing on a manic or hypomanic phase, is generally accepted, although how often this occurs is still hotly debated (somewhere between 4% and 40% of the time?). . . .
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http://www.psycheducation.org/depres...DwithoutAD.htm
Scroll down to the end of the page for his chart.
Pdocs are moving away from anti-depressants.
