Antidepressants should not be used as first-line therapy for depression notes Robert Whitaker

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Britain has recently changed its recommendations, saying that antidepressants should not be used as first-line therapy for depression, that they are just not that effective, and they have all these side effects according to author and journalist Robert Whitaker as he noted in a 2010 interview that he did with Joseph Mercola, DO.

Doctors in Britain are now writing prescriptions for exercise for depression.

The number of doctors writing prescriptions for exercise was 4% in 2007, and now is 25%.

Robert Whitaker’s Book

Robert Whitaker is the author of the wonderful book Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America .

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