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Tag: Are antidepressants overprescribed?

By Hole Ousia Posted on March 27, 2026

The Big Read

Between 1-in-4 and 1-in-5 adults in the UK are taking prescribed psychiatric drugs. This is a fact and is in no way meant to “shame”.  

Categories: Antidepressant prescribing, History of medicine, Progress hardly broke its stride, Psychiatry, Sunshine Act for ScotlandTags: antidepressants, antipsychotics, Are antidepressants overprescribed?, Mistaking antidepressant withdrawal from relapse, overmedicalisation, prescribed drugs, prescribed harm, psychiatry, psychiatry in Fabula, RCPsych, realistic medicine, Royal College of Psychiatrists, SSRIs
By Hole Ousia Posted on November 24, 2025November 25, 2025

Are antidepressants overprescribed? Yes.

Recently, Dr Des Spence submitted, after more than a decade, a follow up to his 2013 ‘Head to Head’ debate in the BMJ with Prof Ian C Reid [see here … Continue reading Are antidepressants overprescribed? Yes.

Categories: Antidepressant prescribing, British Medical Journal, History of medicine, Psychiatry, Sunshine Act for ScotlandTags: Antidepressant withdrawal, antidepressants, Are antidepressants overprescribed?, BMJ, chemical imbalance theory, Defeat Depression Campaign, Des Spence, overmedicalisation, Paroxetine, PE1651, prescribed harm, Professor Ian C Reid, Professor John Crichton, RCPsych, Royal College of Psychiatrists, serotonin theory, Seroxat, SSRIs
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