Reply #90: As a former caseworker....exercise is better.

[Mik T]

I can tell you it's a mixed bag. The antipsychotics are worse by far then the antidepressants. Some of them, like wellbutrin, seem to work for a while, then seem to stop working. The response of the psychiarist is usually to increase dosage. Some, like prozac work for some people and not at all for others. Some of them have such horrid side effects for some poeple that it's not worth it.

I totally agree that these things are over prescribed. In a major way. Instead of doing goal work, when ever I could get away with it, I used to take my clients on walks. I would educate them on healthy eating- which is damn hard on foodstamps.

Most of these things have weight gain as a side effect. There's nothing that makes you more suicidal then gaining 50 pounds you don't need.