SSRIs and tricyclics are terrible drugs for depression. Safe and effective drugs with better mechanisms like amineptine are banned ( http://www.amineptine.com )

TV ads show animated diagrams of serotonin being reuptake but we know the serotonin hypothesis of depression is wrong because those drugs take weeks to kick in and when they do they end up making a lot of people worse and dulling other people. Also stablon has the exact opposite effect by enhancing reuptake of 5-HT, and lowers extra cellular serotonin levels yet is an antidepressant as well. (serotonin has an attenuating effect on dopamine transmission) The studies say it is "just as effective as SSRIs", but if you ask anyone in real life who has tried it they will tell you its very much better than SSRIs and a night and day difference.

The ever so vital dopamine and opiodergic pathways are ignored in drug design to combat dysphoria syndrome/depression. Depression continues to be an epidemic. People who are very dysfunctional from depression rarely, if any, take antidepressants and suddenly feel good and increase in functioning.

my opinion, poor drug design is policy, not ignorance.

what can you do about it?

I dont know,

Suffer?

Watch people like my mom take a handful of useless drugs and continue to suffer and be dysfunctional? (thank goodness i at least live alone)

Go to drugbuyers.com and look at ways to get more opioids or stablon or other drugs?

I have found this site searching about stablon. I have been using it for 4 days I feel well. I wondered if it is placebo or something else. But I can say that it works for me.
I am in medical school and I went to pshyciatrists and used SSRI's and tricyclics but they never worked so good and so quickly.
When I searched the net I found stablon. I read that It is working the oposite way of the others. I think that maybe the opposite one work for me an I have bought it. It is working for now but I don't know this will continue.
But I agree that the USA drug market is a big monopoly and they don't want any other player.

And one more thing I haven't taken psychiatry yet. It is in fifth class. I don't know as much thing as specialists about these drugs. But I believe they are governed by the USA drug markets too.

Totally! "Big Pharmas" tentacles extend all the way to the oval office, shocking as it may seem. But don't take my word for it:

http://www.alternet.org/story/13831/

If you thought drug lords don't have an education and speak English with an accent think again!