No serious scientists have thought depression was caused by any simple story of chemical imbalances that drugs were directly fixing. The author acts like ever

No serious scientists have thought depression was caused by any simple story of chemical imbalances that drugs were directly fixing. The author acts like everyone has been assuming that depressed people have an ssri deficiency. And that's it's a huge insight to consider therapy. And people have tried therapy for a very long time. The best studies show it's as effective as anti depressants. But here's the rub, it's very expensive to go the therapy. My wife had a condition that is more amenable to therapy than drugs and that cost us $500/week, and the only reason she could make her appointments was because she didn't need to work. I have no idea how a working family would have been able to afford it. Her ssri's are 15$ a month and she has to see a psychiatrist every 3 months.