Not all types of depressed patients who persist with their antidepressant treatment improve in side effect complaints: A comparison of treatment completers and dropouts in the STAR*D trial - PubMed
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Side effect complaints from antidepressant treatment improve over time, but only for some types of patients. As a precaution for early dropout, clinicians should monitor patients who exhibit worsening and more severe side effect complaints-especially in the first 6 weeks of antidepressant treatment. …
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The original was posted on /r/science by /u/SweatyPlastic66 on 2024-10-29 23:58:40+00:00.

Original Title: Antidepressant side effects don’t always get better over time. Patients who experience worsening side effects drop out of clinical trials, so we don’t hear from them. This gives a biased picture because we end up looking only at the data from patients who experienced improvements.