- In this report
- Overview
- A good investment
- If drugs, what kind?
- Readers rate antidepressants
- Talk vs. meds vs. both
- Can a sugar pill replace your Zoloft?
- How to pay
- Antipsychotics for ordinary depression
Readers rate antidepressants
This article appeared in We asked readers who took drugs for anxiety, depression, or both within the past three years to rate them. Responses are based on 1,386 experiences. (Some reported on more than one drug.)
Side effects were rated by 872 respondents based on the most recent medication they tried. Sixty-nine percent of those who tried medication experienced at least one side effect. They rated SSRIs at least as helpful as SNRIs but with fewer side effects. Note that bupropion (Wellbutrin and generic) has approval only for treating depression, not anxiety. It is displayed in a separate category because it is neither an SSRI nor SNRI.
Retail prices for the drugs range from about $20 a month for generic SSRIs to more than $400 a month for some name-brand drugs.
