Professor Sami Timimi, a consultant child psychiatrist at the Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Trust, says he prescribes antidepressants with a heavy heart and will do so only when patients or their parents insist.
'I explain that the drugs double the risk of suicidal intention in adolescents and that data shows they are no more helpful than a placebo,' he says.
'The other issue that patients are not aware of is how hard it is to come off these drugs.'
He adds that 'there is no evidence' these drugs correct any chemical imbalance in the brain.
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