Nick Harrop, a campaign manager at YoungMinds, supporting young people’s mental health and wellbeing, said antidepressants for children should never be the only course of action. “GPs all too often prescribe antidepressants to young people because they don’t know what else to do,” he told The Huffington Post.
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