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.
Over a ten-year period, researchers looked at 17.5 million US people with depression, half of whom were on medication and the other half were not.
Regardless of whether or not they were taking antidepressants, both groups exhibited a minor improvement in mental health.
More long-term research on patients taking antidepressants to assess their influence on quality of life are needed, according to experts at Saudi Arabia's King Saud University.
Doctors on the NHS are already avoiding ...