I know lots of boomers take various medications for depression, bi-polar, etc. and I would never advise ignoring a physicians' advice. But every time this subject comes up, I have to practically tie my hands in a knot to keep from responding. I have seen so many lives wrecked by both legal and illegal drugs.

When drugs are prescribed it is so important that symptoms are carefully assessed by a qualified physician who will spend enough time to make an accurate diagnosis.
Far too often family physicians and others without psychiatric training prescribe anti-depressants and other psychotropic drugs without spending enough time to accurately evaluate symptoms.
They prescribe a drug and the patient feels better immediately, but the long-term effects can be serious. Anti depressants which are for clinical depression which is a depressive response to situations that are not necessarily depressing. It is a depression that continues for a long period of time and does not lift even long after a particularly depressing event and is not responsive to happier times.
Anti depressants are often incorrectly prescribed for situational depression which is a perfectly normal response to a sad event. In the presence of anti-depressants which try to trick the brain into thinking it is not depressed, the brain simply compensates by lowering the sadness threshold so that in the future even a barely distressing event will lead to extreme sadness. Therefore, the patient must take the drug forever or face the consequences of extreme sadness and perhaps even clinical depression.

Even with an accurate diagnosis, it is important to be alert for side effects because in addition to physical side effects, they also have psychological side effects that are discrete and difficult to evaluate because the drugs lead to distorted thinking which makes it difficult to assess one's own reaction and/or side effects.
It has recently come to light that anti-depressants can lead to extreme anxiety, aggressive tendencies, and lack of control in teens and children. I believe they would lead to similar reactions in adults, except adults have more well developed controls.
Anti depressants when inaccurately prescribed can lead to aggression. They have been implicated in at least eight of the most recent school shootings and in several of the workplace shootings. There must be a correlation.

I know I sound like your mother or worse, but I am speaking from my heart and from observations in the healthcare facilities where the ill effects show up.

Just be careful and do all the research you can on any drug you are prescribed. I have refused several drugs prescribed for me after surgery because I researched the side effects. It's scary.