Do your drugs really work?

"Americans are less than 5% of the world's population, yet they consume 66% of the world's psychological medications."

That's a lot of us drugged up on Prozac and Xanax and the like. But do these meds even work? According to this article, they work 25% of the time. As much as a placebo does. Yet we're paying millions of dollars a year for them, and risking complications like permanent involuntary movements and heart disease. Psychiatry has changed from one of care and do no harm to drug and don't care about it. Who knows what we're really taking in with these medications!

I'm not saying stop taking them. I'm going to keep taking mine. They're the only thing between me and a horrible depression, and I'm much happier risking losing a few years to heart disease than dying now because of depression.