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This article about antidepressants starts by talking about how the use of antidepressants has increased throughout the decades. The article suggest that depression is being misdiagnosed in many patients who think have depression when they really do not. These people are turning to antidepressants to address and deal with feeling sad and stress in their life. The article suggests that depression can be properly diagnosed and treated with a psychiatrist, but people turn to their primary care doctors for a faster way to treat what they think is depression.

Something I found interesting about this article was the fact that two-thirds of a sample of more than 5,00 patients who had been diagnosed with depression within the past 12 months did

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