11 billion dollars a year! That is how much the anti-depressant medicine market makes in sales so you will NOT be surprised to learn that the pharmaceutical companies are doing everything to protect their interests. That includes the majority of doctors who are sometimes beholden to the companies and will play along in this awful game of prescribing medications which can have lasting and damaging side effects and will rarely mention that there are ways of treating depression naturally. Medication may alleviate depression and certainly works in many cases but the medical community is blinkered when it comes to even considering treating depression without drugs.

Did you know that anti-depressant drugs are now less popular than before although the actual number of prescriptions seems to be increasing. Why is that? The reason is that thanks to the Internet , support groups and forums, people are generally much better informed now than say, ten or fifteen years ago. Add to that the fact that anti depressant medications have been subjected to more scrutiny and their side effects have been publicized a lot more now, than in the past. Treating depression without drugs is now a real possibility but don't expect your doctor to tell you that!

When you read the boxed warnings about suicidal thoughts on some of the anti-depressant medications like Prozac, Zoloft or Tofranil, you begin to wonder what these drugs are really doing to our brains and what the long term effects will be. You may well wonder why there must be such a high price to pay, in every sense of the word, to access depression treatment which can destroy a person's life. But there is lots of good news about treatments for depression which concern alternative methods.