Are antidepressants addictive?

Antidepressant drugs don’t cause the addictions that you get with tranquillisers, alcohol or nicotine, in the sense that:

you don’t need to keep increasing the dose to get the same effect;
you won’t find yourself craving them if you stop taking them.

Read more here: http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/mentalhealthinfoforall/problems/depression/antidepressants.aspx

And whatever you do, if they prescribe you any benzodiazepines, don’t ever run out of them because you can have a seizure and die.

I am blessed that I can deal with life’s constant misery without prescriptions.
If someone is sad because their life is real hard or they dont have enough money to eat and to live on ever (like me), then drugs are not an answer.

Obviously if someone is sad and their life isnt miserable and they Do have enough money to eat regulary and live on, then I can see trying a drug to fix that.

But consider all the effects and that some drugs like benzos are highly addictive and you cant just stop taking them without very serious health effects. I know people who had seizures because they didnt taper off of them with a program.

I read that only stopping 2 things can kill you – alcohol and benzos. All other addictive drugs will make you feel lousy coming off them, but only benzos will kill.
And the problem is that many doctors dont tell the patients this, or some even stop prescribing them without even tapering the patients off them.