I hate to break it to this forums steady line of one shoe size fits all
But some folks especially women
NEED LEXAPRO AND ARE HAPPIER ON IT!
I think most of us know that some folks really do need medication. We just suspect that doctors and pharmaceutical companies are financially motivated to get these drugs into people who do NOT need them.
Of course they are happier, it's a drug that masks fear and anxiety. But what happens next? Either they confront and treat the fear and anxiety using the pill to help, or they don't. Most don't. They are on it for life, and it won't be a long life.
There definitely is a place for psychiatric medications, judiciously prescribed and used as prescribed. Some of them have been real game changers for many patients. The profligate over-use of them is due in part to advertising, which you previously never saw on tv; overworked and undertrained doctors who lump everything into the anxiety/depression bag, because “we’ve got a pill for that,” and the general decay in the culture, which seeks instant gratification and relief, and will demand to get it with the last amount of effort necessary.
Soma, anyone?
Read the article, FRiend. Some morons are giving psych drugs to infants. They're growing another crop of mass shooters.