I was listening to the issue of anti depressants yesterday on talk sport ( Mike Parry and someone else). The issue was the prescribing of them.
Now driving up the A1 I listened as these two tried to draw the line between unhappy and genuinely depressed and how in the past over the years doctors have been slaughtered for just handing them out like sweets. Clearly its a very difficult area for a GP and not an easy decision to make. My own personal experience of the NHS and medication towards depression has been good.
I did smile though when they tried to sway the people ringing in to say if they should ever have been prescribed them in the first place.
The problem was they had callers on that had say taken meds 6/7 years ago and where now okay but where saying that it took them 2 years to come off them. The two presenters were classing this as addiction. God that wound me up so much!!!!!!.

One thing that I dont think people realise is the nature of how anti depressants work and how long you could potentially be on them. Its difficult for a GP to explain this to a patient who has come into the practice and is very very depressed. You are instantly assesed and its like a rollercoaster ride.
GPs have 7 mins per person