Or it could be that medication keeps people from hiding from their problems. I know people who have stopped going to therapy and thus, according to stats, are "

Or it could be that medication keeps people from hiding from their problems. I know people who have stopped going to therapy and thus, according to stats, are "cured", however, they still have all the problems they had before. Conversely, because you need to see a doctor regularly while on psychiatric medications, it makes it a lot harder for one to hide from their situation. Over prescribed meds are definitely an issue, but there is more at play than just that. Edit: One of the data points describes the amount of people taking antipsychotics. The article fails to tell how a lot of psych meds, like antipsychotics, have off-label used. For example, seroquel is a sleep medication in low doses. That would count as taking an antipsychotic even though the dosage is a tenth of that needed for an antipsychotic effect. This article fails to describe how psychiatric medications really are complicated.