Antidepressant Overload in 'Comfortably Numb' : NPR

Article by and interview with Charles Barber, author of the new book Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation. Another in the wave of critical assessments of current treatments for mental illness. Particularly, he raises the caution flag at the overprescription of antidepressants for mild-to-moderate depression: Antidepressant Overload in 'Comfortably Numb' : NPR

A couple of points:

• Again, Barber makes the distinction between mild and severe depression, that meds can save the lives of people who are severely depressed.
• He's critical of the practice of having primary care physicians prescribe meds. He's right, in the sense that just prescribing meds is often lazy medicine that makes big pharma rich.
  I should note that my primary care physician was the first to prescribe antidepressants for me when I was 16, back in the 60s. In that case, it was revolutionary that a general practice doctor would be able to diagnose and treat depression in a teenager.