In England, antidepressants were taken by 7.3 million adults, or 17% of the adult population, from 2017 to 2018, the most recent year for which data is available. Despite its prevalence, it has been demonstrated by a major study that antidepressants don't make people any happier than taking no medicine at all.
The investigation (read below) discovered that patients on the medications did not have a substantially higher quality of life than depressed individuals who were not on the pills....
