Dumbest Fucking Question In Several Hrs. (There'll Be Another One Soon Enough)

Are we using antidepressants to paper over the cracks of a fractured society?

I could spend 10 mins. (min.) screeching at anyone not just off the ship from Mars foolish enough to ask such a question. First, why pose it as a question? You're wimping out already. Try the simple declarative sentence.
THIS WORLD IS DRIVING US ALL MAD & CORPORATE DRUGS ARE TURNING US INTO NUMBED SHEEP WHO CAN'T RESIST. See?

Added fun: The typist goes on to spot the note of bullshit hope in the horror of 50m anti-depressant 'scripts written annually in Limeyland.

There's a positive side to the 50m statistic, though. It suggests that as the stigma has decreased, people have become more willing to ask for help. And, for many, antidepressants work. However, while professionals are quick to acknowledge the benefits – which can be life-saving – many express concern about our growing dependence.

Fair & balanced. Objective.

But shit. Especially when you note this blurb in the sidebar:

The NHS is 'failing to treat depressed patients'

Only half of anxiety and depression sufferers who asked for help last year actually got any treatment, writes Denis Campbell

So. The hell w/ Her Majesty's subjects, keep plowing your money into this, instead of helping people who are the victims of your fractured society, while invading shitholes you were run the fuck out of almost 200 yrs. ago.

I don't think your fractured society is really being papered over. Looks wide open from here. (No paradise here either.)