Mormons and Depression / Mental Illness / Anti-depressant Use

After gathering many responses to the recent question from one of our readers, I thought it would be useful to address one of the topics that came up in some of the comments: depression (and/or the use of anti-depressants by members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints). It”s not an uncommon topic to be brought up — why, if Mormonism claims to have a “plan of happiness” are many Mormons taking anti-depressants?

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