The Medical Thread

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Well, if statistics are correct then there's a very good chance that many patients have no psychiactric diagnosis. A study of antidepressant use in private health insurance plans found that over 40% of those who had been prescribed antidepressants had no psychiatric diagnosis or any mental health care beyond the prescription of the drug. No, the medications don't cure depression, but honestly how many people who are on these prescription drugs are really depressed? How many people are depressed and don't know it, and are not on any kind of prescription drugs?

I do think people are more willing to talk about it now than they were in the very distant past, but I think some of the prescription drugs are unnecessary based on what I said earlier in this post.