Do you think medication like SSRI's are over prescribed?

I think all drugs are over prescribed. Back when ADHD was this big crisis and just had to be cured, my brother was diagnosed and they had him on all sorts of medications. I don’t know how to accurately describe him now because I haven’t lived around him for some years, but when I left he was a zombie. Same things with SSRI’s.

People think that by taking these medications all problems go away, but they’re only aids in recover or treatment; the cause will still be there the next morning. By taking these they become absent from their own treatments and get surprised when they have to switch meds or take higher doses. For some reason we live in a world where we think the only possibility of full existence is if you’re blissfully happy, but maybe the reason so many people feel bleak in life is because they never get the chance to feel anything else and don’t learn how to cope with feelings that aren’t positive and happy.

Some people really do need them, but I know for a fact others don’t but get told to take them anyway. Doctors are getting lazy. If we’re not causing worse conditions like schizophrenia, we change the personality of these people and create dependency, entire generations submerged in pill bottle culture.

its hasnt been shown to cause it but there hasnt been aot of research. Also, thirty years is not long considering how long it has taken to build up the little knowledge of neuroscience we have. Its quite scary how little we know but how willing we are to mess with it anyway. And I dont mean it should be denied to people who need it, but that it shouldnt be prescribed to everyone automatically with a few symptoms of depression

I know what you mean. My boyfriend was on SSRI for ages and when he finally came off them, he felt so much better. In the end, they were not even helping him at all, they were just putting off the time when he had to actually work though his issues and in the meantime, he had become more and more emotionally dependant on them