An excellent point. The premise of this article is that evil pharmacteutical companies are over-prescribing drugs that make sane people psychotic. There may be some of that.
I think the exact opposite is more correct: a lot of behavior in some "irritating" or "hot-tempered" or "forgetful" people, for example, is explained away as "that's how he is" or "yeah her mom is the same way", etc., and in fact these are symptoms of organic mental illness that can be treated medicinally.
I personally know this to be the case in at least two people who had a whole list of seeminingly "normal" problems who were "going through a lot of things at the time". In fact they were about to crack -- one did -- and under medication have recovered from a more or less decades-long mental "fever", if you will.
“The premise of this article is that evil pharmacteutical companies are over-prescribing drugs that make sane people psychotic”
No. The article is about a loss of God in people’s lives
I think antidepressant drugs have their place when used to treat older people but are a disaster for younger people. I'm not sure exactly where the cutoff would be. I'm guessing I'd put it at 23 or so. I think by 23 the brain has locked in controls that the drugs can't override as they can in a younger person. But if I'm wrong find out what age it is and use that age.
I'm really glad such drugs didn't exist when I was young, I'd have been on them and have hurt someone. Parents divorced when I was 8, and I was extremely angry and it was deep anger. I was on the leading edge of that '70s easy divorce thing. Thanks liberals, feminists. I didn't know I was angry and I didn't know I was depressed. But I wasn't like my peers either, I was down, withdrawn, depressed. My nervous system could not take what was going on with my family. I read about depression years after I came out of mine (which lasted about 20 years) and realized I was reading about myself. I'm still angry but I know it.
Looking back, and my advice to young people having trouble coping, don't take the drugs, just suffer the depression and wait for it subside on its own maybe decades later. That's better than taking a drug which one day crosses the wires in the brain and makes you go berserk. The anger will come out one way or another. Better it be under your control than not.