It's just common sense that things would not be geared toward the patient's best outcome.

It's easier (read: cheaper) for the broken NHS and cash strapped government to shovel pills than it is to get someone to revamp their life.

Imagine the alternative cost of talking therapies for the NHS. There are three year waiting lists for them already.

Depression usually occurs for a causal reason, it just may not have been found for the individual yet. It could be poor diet, lack of exercise, excessive escapism as a response to unprocessed trauma etc. Ultimately though these causes require the patient to exert effort toward improving their life, and so they have to have willpower and motivation.

Thankfully exercise can now be prescribed by doctors in the UK!