Yeah the author said something along the lines of > beyond only the packs of pills we have been offered as often the sole item on the menu for the depressed an

Yeah the author said something along the lines of > beyond only the packs of pills we have been offered as often the sole item on the menu for the depressed and anxious several times in that article, and it just doesn't ring true for me. Maybe the author is specifically talking about American psychiatry or maybe the people I know were just lucky, but all the people I know that have been to their GP about depression or anxiety (granted not a huge sample size) were offered CBT first and foremost and only one of them was prescribed medication at all in the end.