[amanaplanacanal]

The resources to send everybody to therapy simply don’t exist. There aren’t enough therapists, nor money to pay them, for what you are suggesting. People aren’t taking the easy way out, they are taking the only path available.

[haldujai]

As GP may be aware therapy is recommended first-line either in isolation or combination with pharmacotherapy for every type of depression.

To further illustrate the accessibility point when I lived in Canada therapy was not covered by the public health system and is entirely out of pocket.

In the US it obviously depends on the highly variable coinsurance/copay and assumes you can either take time off work or find a provider that works outside of business hours.

A 30-day supply of Lexapro is $4.50 and also has evidence that it works.