Dr. Gotzsche is the Director of the widely respected Cochrane Collaboration that you are quoting above. He is a very serious and widely respected scientist who has studied this issue extensively. Why should I take your opinion over his? His opinions are also shared by many distinguished psychiatrists including ex-heads of the APA. The fact that you can google something critical of him or critical of Robert Whitaker does not impress me.

If anyone is interested in this issue, just have a direct listen to R.W. speaking to a large conference of Danish Psychologists and Psychiatrists here



and see if he makes sense to you.

The wide-spread practice of immediately treating people with these drugs is, I believe, rapidly changing. See, for instance this story about PTSD

Are medications an effective PTSD treatment? - CNN Video

- vital