Anyone who tells you anti-depressants are not habit forming is a rep for a pharma co. that has not been sued to change their stance on that statement yet.
Habit forming - addiction - tends to include tolerance (doesn't exist for anti depressants), pre-occupation (doesn't exist), drug seeking and holding (doesn't exist).
There are problems with anti depressants being over prescribed and misprescribed to people who should have had a talking therapy, and they are difficult for some people to stop, but calling them hanit forming is incorrect.
Wouldn't the withdrawls qualify them as habit forming? Calling them extremely addicting would probably be inaccurate, but "There's a good chance you'll feel awful if you stop taking this" seems like it may encourage forming a habit.
>ADT tachyphylaxis incorporates drug sensitivity as a potential causal factor for the decreased response. However, tolerance provides a more accurate explanation. While the exact cause of ADT tachyphylaxis in individual cases is unknown, drug tolerance is a more comprehensive model, as it includes mechanisms of pharmacodynamic tolerance, metabolic tolerance, and others.[7]
There are problems with anti depressants being over prescribed and misprescribed to people who should have had a talking therapy, and they are difficult for some people to stop, but calling them hanit forming is incorrect.