Prescription antidepressant use in America is at an all-time high. More people are medicated for depression than ever before.

And yet, depression rates haven't dropped — they've climbed.

Here's what rarely gets said: if you're experiencing depression or deep sadness, it's not because your brain is deficient in a pharmaceutical compound. You're not missing Prozac the way you'd be missing vitamin D or magnesium. The drugs don't correct an imbalance — they create one.

Antidepressants alter brain chemistry in unpredictable ways. For many people, they intensify the very symptoms they're supposed to treat. But raising this concern? Suggesting the emperor has no clothes? That's when the defensiveness kicks in. Because we're talking about one of the most profitable sectors in modern medicine.

The question isn't whether some people feel temporary relief. It's whether we've confused symptom suppression with healing — and whether financial incentives have replaced honest conversation about what actually works.

If we can't ask hard questions about what we put in our bodies, we've already lost the plot.

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