Let me help you with that source you linked, and because you linked it, you now own its every word.you don't have to read my anecdotal stories..you can even put me on ignore if you'd like.
Over the past two decades, the use of antidepressants has skyrocketed. One in 10 Americans now takes an antidepressant medication; among women in their 40s and 50s, the figure is one in four.
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/12/a-glut-of-antidepressants/?_r=0
it's no longer the stigma it used to be and i'm glad i was smart enough to get help, unlike my mom, who denied it to her grave..this is very sad for our family being scanda and all we live a very healthy long life..grandma just celebrated her 98th in november and she still drive a car and all her shopping..she even bails out my scumbag, trash family from prison.
Here is what that blog article was REALLY about:
That article says that 2/3rds of the diagnosis for depression DO NOT MEET THE CRITERIA FOR IT!!!!!! So in reality, less than 4% of people are ACTUALLY depressed enough to need medication. OR that there is a 67% chance that you were MISDIAGNOSED and should no be taking those drugs.The study, published in April in the journal Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, found that nearly two-thirds of a sample of more than 5,000 patients who had been given a diagnosis of depression within the previous 12 months did not meet the criteria for major depressive episode as described by the psychiatrists’ bible, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (or D.S.M.).
The study is not the first to find that patients frequently get “false positive” diagnoses for depression. Several earlier review studies have reported that diagnostic accuracy is low in general practice offices, in large part because serious depression is so rare in that setting.
In other words: Doctor Feelgood just wants your insurance/money.
Seriously girl, you need to read your sources all the way through to make sure it doesn't directly contradict whatever point is is you are trying to make. You have linked things that way countless times, and every time you do, it makes you look less and less credible.
Why do middle aged women get a little bit sad and run to a magic pill for the solution?