If the side effects of the medications of anxiety and depression could make symptoms even worse then why should one consume these medications? I have done my research and came to know that these medications could even shorten life span by 20 years and even shrink the brain, it could also become impossible to come out of these drugs which could lead to suiciducal thoughts and worsen the symptoms even further. So why should a person consume such medications?

Dr. Saranya DevanathanPsychiatrist47yrs exp

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Dear Dhariya, Not all the side effect comes in every person who takes it. Even if 5% experience side effect, it needs to be reported in allopathy medicines. Not all anxiety and depression drugs cause the same side effect. Some side effects like sedation or weight loss are welcome by certain group of patients. Certain side effects come ony on higher dosage. Only few benzodiazepine group of anxiety drugs find it difficult to come out of the drugs. Suicidal thoughts come only at certain age group. Life span reduction and shrinkage of brain happens again in certain age group with many medical illnesses are also there. Your research should cover randomised controlled studies done on all the drugs before they are released in the market. 

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