A drug can have real effects while being no better than a placebo for doing something specific (what they're supposed to do).

Okay, so what makes you believe that about prozac (or SSRIs) then?

	▲	ckw 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Here’s a paper from last year: The nature and impact of antidepressant withdrawal symptoms and proposal of the Discriminatory Antidepressant Withdrawal Symptoms Scale (DAWSS) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadr.2024.100765 ‘Highlights • Antidepressant withdrawal can be severe and protracted. • It produces characteristic physical and emotional symptoms. • All symptoms were more severe after stopping than before starting antidepressants. • We identified the 15 most discriminatory withdrawal symptoms in our sample. • Withdrawal did not differ between people with physical or mental health diagnoses.’