Are you one of those people who somehow believe that, because the pop culture "chemical imbalance" ideology was never factual, SSRIs don't work.

They are continually prescribed because their actual mechanism doesn't matter, they demonstrably work. That is a matter of statistics, not science.

Anti-science types always point to the same EXTREMELY FEW examples of how science "fails", like Galileo (which had nothing to do with science) and ulcers.

They never seem to point to the much more common examples where people became convinced of something scientifically untrue for decades despite plenty of evidence otherwise. The British recognized a link between citrus and scurvy well before they were even called "Limeys"! They then screwed themselves over by changing some variables (cooking lime juice) and instead turned to a quack ("respected doctor" from a time when most people recognized doctors were worse than the sickness they treated) who insisted on alternative treatment. For about a hundred years, British sailors suffered and died due to one quacks ego.

Phrenology was always, from day one, unscientific. You STILL find morons pushing it's claims, using it to justify their godawful, hateful, and murderous world views.

Ivermectin is a great example, since you can create a "study" in Africa to show Ivermectin cures anything you want, because it is a parasite killer and most people in impoverished areas suffer from parasites, so will improve if they take it. It's entirely unrelated to the illness you claim to treat, but nobody on Facebook will ever understand that, because they tuned out science education decades ago.

How many people have died from alternative medicine quacks pushing outright disproven pseudoscience on people who have been told not to trust scientists by people pushing an agenda?

How much money is made selling sugarpills to idiots who have been told to distrust science, not just "be skeptical of any paper" but outright, scientists are in a conspiracy to lie to you!

SSRIs may work, but the science isn't settled that they work better than a placebo: https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/9/6/e024886.full . And they come with side effects like sexual dysfunction that other treatments (like therapy) don't face.