Kristin, this is fascinating (and worrisome) to me. Especially because depression medicine is not cheap!
I never understood before what the mechanism might have been that had so MANY people on anti-depressants. I am fully in favor of medicines for those who need them and I have taken anti-depressants in the past with good results. So I'm not at all against them. But I just never understood the statistics before this.
Sadly, they make perfect sense now. If putting people on medicines cuts costs and thereby increases their profits, of course insurance companies would push it as a solution. I hope anyone who feels that they truly need psychotherapy but have been given a brush-off on their way to antidepressants will be able to have another talk with their doctor, or even seek a second opinion if that's called for.
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Kristin, this is fascinating (and worrisome) to me. Especially because depression medicine is not cheap!
I never understood before what the mechanism might have been that had so MANY people on anti-depressants. I am fully in favor of medicines for those who need them and I have taken anti-depressants in the past with good results. So I'm not at all against them. But I just never understood the statistics before this.
Sadly, they make perfect sense now. If putting people on medicines cuts costs and thereby increases their profits, of course insurance companies would push it as a solution. I hope anyone who feels that they truly need psychotherapy but have been given a brush-off on their way to antidepressants will be able to have another talk with their doctor, or even seek a second opinion if that's called for.
November 11, 2009 - 9:47amThis Comment
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