In 2017 there were 67 million prescriptions for antidepressant medication in England. Despite the widespread availability of a medication which has been clinically proven to treat depression, there still seems to be a lot of depression and anxiety about. If antidepressants were the whole story, surely, we should all be feeling a whole lot happier by now?

Whilst I am sure that antidepressants can have a role to play in the treatment of depression and anxiety, it is important that we understand how and why we use these medications, otherwise I think there is potential for them to become part of the problem, rather than part of the solution.

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