It's not just that - it's that from a perspective of a psychiatrist there is no safer drug to get someone out of a deep hole. The thing is that people should b

It's not just that - it's that from a perspective of a psychiatrist there is no safer drug to get someone out of a deep hole. The thing is that people should be trying to figure out what was the underlying issue and whether it's possible to fix it. Not many doctors have the motivation to do this infortunately, and many patients don't either. I've met people with adhd and daytime sleepiness, who spent years on antidepressants. The effect was that they still couldn't focus, but didn't feel depressed because of that, and didn't even know they had problem.