I don't for a minute dispute that psychotropic meds are over-prescribed. But if it weren't for those same meds for (in my case) hereditary and decidedly non-temporary clinical depression, I would have taken my own life several times over by now (an absurd statement, but you know what I mean). And, for the record, they don't numb a damn thing - they just help to protect against the wilder imbalances of brain chemicals that completely skew your ability to deal with the realities of life.

Therapy most emphatically helps as well, but I would not have been able to take advantage of it without the meds stabilizing the underlying chemical problem.

Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater, please.