Do antidepressants work for everyone?

No: Antidepressants do not work for everyone and even when they work at the beginning of treatment, they may not continue to work.

No: Antidepressant are use for many different reasons, most commonly to treat depression. For most people, antidepressants will help/improve their depression, unfortunately not everyone will benefit from them.

No: When someone does have depression and it is thought that medicine would be the right treatment, then we try to tailor the medicine to what symptoms the patient has. However, every person is going to react to medicine differently and often we need to try several different antidepressants until we find the most appropriate one.

No: An answer to a broad question like that will of course be no as nothing will truly work for everyone. However, i would say that if one is diagnosed with true depressive disorder then considering an antidepressant with therapy would be a wise place to start. Most antidepressants like ssris take about 1-2 weeks to begin to see results and about 4-6 weeks to truly see full results at current dose.

No: Roughly 2 out of 3 people with the specific illness major depressive disorder (mdd) will respond to the first antidepressant they are treated with though this does not mean that all of their symptoms will resolve. Not all depression is mdd. The more severe the mdd is the more likely it is to respond to an antidepressant. Roughly 90% of people with mdd will partially respond to a medicine.