Some because that is what their doctor prescribed and others for "fun".
Mine just return my setting to "normal". I don't get a "high" off them and I don't get numb. I am just me again.
If you are not responding to a medicine or you are having weird side effects then for the love of mike quit taking it.
If your doctor disagrees, get another doctor. Get two or three of them if you must. Being human they view every thing through a prism of their own bises which can sometimes make them see problems that aren't there while overlooking the ones that are.
I would not be in the spot I am if fifteen years ago when my then doctor told me, "that's normal, just live with it" I had found another doctor who know what he was doing.
“I am going to venture to say that part of the problem is that people who don’t need anti-depressants are taking them.”
We have a winner.
They’re being prescribed to women going through menopause.
Menopause is a normal, natural thing..not a “mental illness”.
It became ‘hip’ to take Prozac in the 90’s because it causes ‘weight loss’ in many people.
Hollyweirdos took it just for that.
They’re [over]prescribed for things that are actually just normal life events, such as a loss of a loved one, a job, your hair, whatever.
*Everything* is “depression”, now.
The true, _clinically depressed_ [idiopathic depression arising from no identifiable emotional upheaval or physical cause] are fairly rare.
But, the pills are very profitable and the masses very gullible.
So, here we are, a Prozac nation.