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Is it a good idea to start antidepressants in order to help me get to the root cause... assuming it's not clinical depression?

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Dr. Axel Martinez-Irizarry answered

Specializes in Family Medicine

No.: Antidepressants serve their purpose for people that have diagnoses that merit them, but they don't work like Tylenol, (acetaminophen) they take about 1 month to 3 months to really be effective and may take a long period of time to wean off of them. Stopping those medications suddenly can produce a dangerous withdrawal.

Answered 6/17/2014

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