> I think the move to "chemical" explanations is largely because the "chemical" treatments have been wildly successful This. The fact that "the mechanism of a

> I think the move to "chemical" explanations is largely because the "chemical" treatments have been wildly successful This. The fact that "the mechanism of action remains a mystery" doesn't mean we shouldn't do anything about it. Those drugs work, and AFAIK they are pretty safe. The same can be said about many other disorders that we don't know the mechanisms of action, but we still use drugs that seem to be successful (schizophrenia, OCD, Tourette, etc.). Depression and anxiety seem to be much more stigmatized when drugs are involved. I agree the diagnostics are all over the place, though. You can be sad and not be depressed, and you can be stressed without having an anxiety disorder. Doctors should be more rigorous and not default to antidepressants for every patient they see.