These meds are handed out at the drop of a hat to many people who aren't suicidal or homicidal.
All too often doctors especially Shrinks do not dig into a patients medical history deep enough to find hidden physical ailments of which antidepressants will bring on an adverse reaction. Both myself and my wife have on our medical records "No Antidepressants".
My wife took Zoloft and Trazodone for mdepression and PTSD and after a few months suddenly thought she was Tess on Touched by an Angel. She also beat herself black and blue while thrashing non stop for several days. BTW she's a quadriplegic {was such before that}. Her CT Scan showed recent bleeder in the brain from the episode. Doctors were clueless. Some discussions on FR a few years earlier had me to start looking at her antidepressants on a web search. When I showed the doctor a highly credible report on Serotonin Syndrome he said that is pure Rubbish. I said is this not your universities Pharmacology School Professors report? It was at a university hospital. He ordered a CT Scan after I showed him that.