When Antidepressants Don’t Work
If you’ve been taking an antidepressant for six weeks or more and don’t feel like you are getting much better, there’s an important link with thyroid function you should know about. A surprisingly high percentage of people with chronic or treatment-resistant depression are found to have low thyroid function, research shows. In one study, 22 % of people with treatment-resistant depression were found to have sub-par thyroid function (based on TSH levels), compared to only 2 % of people whose depression was helped by antidepressants.
I believe an even higher number of people with depression have another kind of thyroid problem