One sixth of the entire population of the USA America is presently taking anti-depressant medication. One sixth of the population is taking a medication for which there is no good scientific model and no measurable component of the body that is being monitored (i.e no blood chemical level, no broken muscle mechanism, no nerve signal monitoring). The entire practice in anecdotal and superstitious and a mockery of real science and real medicine. The entire practice is designed to sell pharmaceutical products for which there is no real need - because no component of the body that can be identified is actually broken in a way that can be described scientifically.
This book describes that better:https://www.amazon.com/Brain-Evangelists-Psychiatry-Far-Fetched-Treatments/dp/0995190607/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1509021286&sr=8-1&keywords=brain+evangelists
"In Brain Evangelists, renowned psychiatrist Gordon Warme, MD, blows the whistle on modern psychiatry. In irresistible, darkly amusing prose, he argues that, in the long history of medicine, biological and chemical "abnormalities" in psychiatric patients have never been identified. He insists that labels such as schizophrenia and depression are misleading metaphors that dehumanize patients and authorize psychiatrists to do the unthinkable: remove patients' civil rights, hospitalize without warrant, and administer powerful drugs against patients' wills."
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William Schaeffer
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