I was actually surprised that antidepressants are prescribed for IBS quite often. My son used to suffer from IBS (grew out of it), and his doctor wanted to put

I was actually surprised that antidepressants are prescribed for IBS quite often. My son used to suffer from IBS (grew out of it), and his doctor wanted to put him on, I kid you not, Prozac. That's for a still developing kid at like 10 years old. He said he prescribed Prozac pretty much all the time when he suspects that the cause of IBS is psychosomatic. Another unpleasant revelation was just how little is known about this presumably fairly common condition. Nobody knows how to diagnose it, and there's no cure. If you don't grow out of it, you're stuck with it for life, and many people don't grow out of it.