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by User23 1433 days ago
They can however prescribe basically harmless pills that do more or less nothing. Low dose vitamin pills are sometimes used for this purpose.

Whether or not it's ethical for a doctor to tell a depression patient that the depression is caused by a treatable vitamin deficiency is another matter. Then again, maybe it really is caused by a lack of micronutients. After all we really don't understand depression very well.