Why are so many women on anti-depressants?

Because men have fucked things up for centuries.

Doctors would rather put women on meds than to listen to their problems. This has been a fact for as long as doctor has been a profession.

Because doctors have a gender bias.

wrong question, the correct question is why are doctors incentivized to push anti-depressants?

The answer of course is money from the pharma companies who bank rolled their tuition and of course a little kickback per new client.

This might have to do with there probably being way more woman than men that are willing to go to therapy

Most women I know have done it at some point in their lives, most guys I know are more of the “I’ll either thug it out or kill myself” mentality

Cause we all depressed…

To put in the water supply,so everyone is on antidepressants. Think food ingredients, think rmf waves, tv radio, phone fivpes. It’s a Mosaic of attack on your person every single second. Once you know this, there’s no going back.

honest opinion from a woman diagnosed with depression? im just really unhappy, i feel the weight of everything is too much to handle (im not on them, yet, but heavily considering it. as i am 28 and nothing else has worked, and i refuse to become a parent like my father). id rather feel absolutely nothing than all this anger and depression. i dont believe they will make one happy, but it probably makes life more bearable. my husband is completely against it pffftt, (he isnt forcing me to not get on them, he just would rather i dont.)

I did spend over a decade refusing to try them, but it’s getting annoying and energy sucking. and I do have two girl friends that swear it has helped them.

I was 16 years old, full of angst and confusion. My mom made the appointment. Doctor told me I had depression, because my mom and dad have it. Explained it away as a hereditary chemical imbalance, and prescribed me an SSRI. Science has since learned this isn’t true, but my body relies on the med at this point. I am fortunate to be on the lowest dose these days, but it would require time off work and a couple weeks of isolation from life to go through the withdrawals.

We’re more likely to talk about our problems and seek help instead of bottling it up until we snap, we’re more likely to be self-conscious about appearance in a world that bombards us with images of “perfected” women because that is the main thing people value in us, we’re socialized to be submissive and that leads to learned helplessness, and finally, some of us just want authentic attention from others.

Depression is a symptom, not an illness. It is next to impossible to have depression without a root emotional cause, unless it’s something like hypothyroidism, and even then the depression is a symptom.

The scientifically-proven best remedy for depression is simply what your mother probably already told you (but in a nasty tone): daily, peaceful, quiet, preferably sunny walks outside.

Because they can’t get OTC lobotomies.

Jesus fucking Christ, 1 out of 5 Americans are on antidepressants?

We’re fucked.

Problems are way over diagnosed throwing someone a bottle of pills is the easiest option for doctors.

Anti depressants are not a solution to the problem.

Caveat: leftist cat women are likely the majority of them.

1. They are “independent, bad bitches.”
2. They are easily influenced by influencers.
3. They get their news from Instagram and Tiktok.
4. They get their entertainment from streaming services.
5. They seek relief from it all from the bottle, bong or worse.

This is quite clear:
1. Generally women are more likely to go see the doctor.
2. Generally speaking women then are also more likely to even discuss their mental health. (Stigma still lingers more so for men in society rn not to seem “weak”)

Just by those two means you can start to see at least some discrepancy.
I feel the TRUE take away from this is the fact that more younger individuals are getting on AD medications.
This could mean a couple things:
1. Younger people are under more stress now
2. Younger people are less likely to feed into the old stigmatization of mental health.
3. Younger people may be more willing to discuss their ailments, physical or mental alike.
Which could it be, if not another factor?

The last checkup I went to was around 2021. My first check up as an adult. I lost about 50 pounds but at the time i had gained 40 of it back. I mentioned to the doctor that I was losing weight but much slower than before and it was frustrating. The only thing she offered me was an anti depressant…….I declined, lost 15 pounds shortly after that appointment. WTF.

Some of the discussion here on anti-depressants seems with ill-informed or downright ignorant. If you have never taken antidepressants or experienced their positive effects (note: not brain numbing or whatever) you may want to sit down. Also, on the money front, the most frequently prescribed depressing meds are generic at this point and cost next to nothing, so there goes that argument.

I’ve noticed most are just generally unhappy. It probably is related to their hypergamous nature

Doctors give them out to menopausal women to control their symptoms.