FactCheck: why are so many of us on antidepressants?
One in nine women in England takes antidepressants, according to the latest official national health survey.
Just over 11 per cent of women and nearly six per cent of men over 16 said they had popped at least one pill prescribed for depression within the last week.
Other statistics show that doctors wrote more than a million prescriptions for antidepressants a week last year, almost double the amount ten years ago.
