[Anonymous]

It amazes me that parents are allowing their children to be put on these medications, but you can actually have your child taken away from you for neglect if you don't and some nutjob says you need to. Parents need to be more aware of this before they go to some dumb psychiatrist who has 'cute' little zoloft notepads and paxil pencils all over his/her office.
It literally makes me sick to my stomach how many people buy into this bullshit. These medications have to be one of the biggest scams in history. It's fucking criminal.
People should only be put on medication under a very serious and acute situtation, and should be really monitored, and only on them for a very short period of time (working with other ways to overcome the crisis)... and as a last resort/no other foreseeable alternative. There is absolutely no reason for people to be on these for years and/or for non-absolutely-critical reasons. And all this only if there is a real chance it will actually help somehow as opposed to the shot-in-the-dark way they pass out that shit now.
Making major changes in your life, (maybe therapy, if you can actually find someone good), changing your diet (very important) and exercise, and working really hard at it, go a hell of a long way.