Naturally, a handful of these people have displayed some aberrant behavior. A handful of any group of five million people will, at one time or another, display aberrant behavior. All medications have potential side effects, of course, and antidepressants are no exception. A relatively small percentage of people taking the new generation of antidepressants, however, experience any side-effects at all. Antidepressants are unnatural and unhealthy.
Antidepressants simply balance the level of neurotransmitters already in the brain.
The positive effect of antidepressants comes from allowing naturally produced neurotransmitters to return to natural levels. The problems of alcoholism and drug addiction have strong links to depression. The search for highs may often begin as a flight from lows. M.D. Healing depression means years of psychotherapy. The reason some people perceive, think about, and do depressing things is that no one ever taught them a better way.