I agree that many antidepressants appear to be ineffective or of minimal effectiveness for many, often causing undue side effects, I had this same experience with pristiq & prozac, I began to lose trust in psychiatry, then I was commenced on zoloft & haven't looked back since (I stand to gain no financial benefit from the sales of zoloft lol!).

Lolagrace, thank you, this was my point. Alternative therapies are awesome but just like with those who claim to have the cure for cancer, many alternative therapy articles I have found that claim big pharma is just out for your money & is trying to make you sick actually stand to make money from their own products & so are almost doing the same thing but without rigorous scientific method, meta analysis of years of medical research & practise etc.

ElsaMars, your so right, every time we think we "know" something, new evidence is put forth, but that's the beauty of it I suppose, were continuously learning.

Thanks again for everyone's awesome replies