I think they need to be prescribed and used with much more restraint in this country, and never without the parallel treatment of psychological counseling. Medicating the symptom of any illness without exploring its root cause is just a classically Western hare-brained way to think that anyone could ever truly get better.

Delurking because this makes me so angry. How does she propose people pay for therapy? My insurance, like many, refuses to cover any therapy, and these sessions aren't cheap. Is she doing something other than preaching at people about what they should do? Is she lobbying for change in the health insurance industry and for recognition of mental illness as an illness that deserves coverage? It's really hard to get a lot of people into therapy for a variety of reasons, including financial ones---effective drugs are certainly better than nothing.