I have to add here though; Upstream your outline of SSRI's only included anti-depressants, where as an SSRI covers several functional categories, not just depression. SSRI's are classified for anxiety only also.... which some of these do work. I totally agree with you that the SSRI's for depression have something like a 90% plus failure rate or worse, they actually increase the thoughts of suicidal ideation. What is a doctors next move for this? Usually they decide that anti-physcotics are then required and try labelling a person with some physcotic disorder also.

People are lazy, lets face it. There are a good majority of people on this very forum who are taking pills in the belief that they will solve all their problems over having to actually face their fears, work through their trauma and then do some exposure therapy to relearn how to become social and practicable again. People think they can achieve all this with a medication.... so doctors will take their money and cater this need.

Its not only a good proportion of doctors who are idiots, money hungry twits, but also the sufferers who are lazy and ignorant of the true facts required to actually get better from something like PTSD. People would rather believe they can pop a pill than get out of bed at the same time every day (routine), walk or exercise daily for a minimum of one hour (physical activity) and then find a hobby or interest to occupy their mind during the majority of the day (activity). Instead they believe they can sit on the lounge and watch TV all day, pop a pill, do nothing and it will all be good. Then... they go back to the doctor telling them how they are getting worse, when likely the doctor told them to get off their arse and get out of the house, but people once again find it easier to lie to the doctor and tell them nonsense, make the doctor look like an idiot, and use these lies (denial) as an excuse for their behaviour.

Medication has a purpose, it is limited from all my knowledge reading through journals about them, piecing together all the for and againsts matters to determine a commonsense approach.... it is often abused as a money making technique by physicians or ignored in other areas by the patient taking them. A pill will not fix everything, EVER.

Great topic Upstream.... maybe some may just learn to wakeup to themselves and get their finger out of their backside and into action.... because a pill isn't going to fix it for you.