SSRIs are like antibiotics. Useful meds in the right circumstances, but way overprescribed.
My brother has severe OCD, major depression, and an anxiety disorder. SSRIs help. Talk therapy doesn't, at all.
It's a problem with pubescent teens with normal pubescent teen problems and bouts of the pubescent teenie blues are put on these drugs while their brains are still developing. f***s them all up.
@Dench, 100% right on Ketamine. I've seen adds for clinics offering K treatments. It looks very promising but it's not a money maker for Big Pharma so it's probably not going to go mainstream. Most people could afford K treatment if they prioritized their mental health. That's another facet of the problem. People will wallow in depressed misery, but go spend their money on iPhones and monthly streaming subscriptions and sneakers instead of a treatment program.
MDMA/LSD/Psilocybin also showing incredibly promising results in PTSD, depression, anxiety, migraine and cluster headache care. But super easy and cheap to mass produce so will never get FDA green light for widespread use. Gotta float big pharma.