Based on my own lack of success with them, if I continued the rest of my life believing that it's just a matter of finding the right one, I would end up becoming a statistic myself.

I have a hard time believing that any of those studies are even able to reliably quantify success. Many of them, being more under the scope these days, are only able to now report a 30% success rate, and I even question that. Myself, I've had a 0% success rate with them, and don't consider the long-term effects to have at all been worth my taking them.

It's just so dangerous that prescribers and fans will so often purport their usefulness to be such a sure thing. It's great that it works for some people but it does not mean that it will work for everyone; for some it's absolutely counterproductive to experience continued failures with anti-depressants whilst already depressed, based on the dream that there is an anti-depressant out there for everyone, like true love, and just to keep trying more and more of them. It is not for everyone, and the numbers show this quite clearly.

I do especially agree with the article's author that working towards resolving underlying causes of depression, instead of focusing on depression itself, is a much more effective approach. Talking to my therapist about, and focusing on my depression always seems so besides the point, and for me I think that medicating the depression can very much contribute to a sense of running in place.