Antidepressant use is surging in Britain

[pedalpete]

https://archive.is/5sjF0

[CapstanRoller]

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

[theGnuMe]

My prescription is to Drink less or don’t drink alcohol at all.

Then meditation.

Antidepressants do work but depression is your body telling you something is wrong so figuring that out is helpful.

Britain has Shiite life syndrome as well. It probably exists here in the USA but we don’t see it so much b/c of inequal access to health care.

[bufio]

Shit Life Syndrome is on the increase. It seems that a lot of people feel that they and their loved ones are quickly running out of track.

[nickdothutton]

Antidepressants have been handed out like candy in the UK for decades. It was a news story in the 90s.

[user_7832]

Can't speak for everyone but anecdotally I have seen a very similar thing in India too. Often, it turned out to be something else (commonly it was undiagnosed ADHD which apparently can be in 5-10% of the population.)

[johnday]

Then a very recent _increase_, even beyond that, is notable, no?

[Zetobal]

I mean it's like their fourth prime minister without a vote.

[coolThingsFirst]

Gimme gimme

[djsedaw]

I'm not surprised, have you seen our government?

[jassyr]

Recently science has been pushing back on the "Imbalance" language. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2022/jul/analysis-depression-prob...

Moreover, it seems to me there are far more people skeptical and ideologically opposed to antidepressants than those supporting it.

SSRI's changed my life for the better and it's a real shame I listened to the naysayers for so long. There's no shame in seeking help and treatment. Something like 8% of American men take an ssri, and based on my own social group's struggles it should probably be well over 50% (I'm exaggerating only slightly).

[barrysteve]

SSRI's are known to have side effects on your sex drive, libido and anorgasmia in some cases.

The bar for informing patients on potential side effects is so low. The silver bullet attitude many doctors carry with ssri prescriptions is quite misleading.

[0]https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9934946/#:~:text=Among%20the....

[hammyhavoc]

Can you quantify this "many"? What were your data points for identifying them? What social media platform(s)? Where can I read more about your research into these "women who have bought into this"?

I'm extremely skeptical of your vague claim.

[bufio]

"Chemical imbalance" is not common parlance in psychiatry.

[_fw]

“British food and British women made British sailors the finest in the world”.

[foldr]

> awful bland food

Too out of date to be funny. This hasn’t been anywhere near true for at least a couple of decades.

[_fw]

Somebody call… all of psychiatry/medicine

Depression has a perfect cure!

Reductive perspectives like this perpetuate myths that are not only wrong, they’re harmful.

How’s somebody who works 60h a week in a shit house in a shit town earning shit money supposed to take time out to enjoy the iconic flora and fauna meters from their doorstep?

People who don’t use social media have depression too my guy.