I look at it the other way: companies "pushing"[1] antidepressants not just on pregnant women, but on all of us, for years on end, should be putting out a very clear message that you should not take these medicines unless absolutely recommended by your doctor, and other, generally more efficacious methods -- such as talk therapy and lifestyle changes -- have been at least explored, and found to be ineffective (or depending on the severity of your case, not immediately effective).

Unfortunately, this is not what these companies are doing, as a rule. And given what we've found out SSRIs -- and the behavior of some of the major players in this industry, in recent years -- no one should be terribly surprised at the findings in the JAMA study (assuming they hold up to scrutiny).

Also:

Restarting the SSRI of course did the trick, but they don't work fast and I lost nearly a year of my life. I currently regard this as the worst decision I have ever made.

With all due respect to your situation -- and not intended in the least to belittle either your suffering, or the thought you put into the decisions you made -- perhaps the bigger mistake was not going off SSRIs (at which point the die may have been more or less cast for you, in the short- to medium-term) -- but agreeing to go on them in the first place.

[1] Yes, this is a loaded term. But I use it quite intentionally. Having not only studied the tradeoffs associated with one major class of antidepressants, but also having worked for one of the market's leading distributors -- and having made a careful study of their marketing materials -- I'd say "pushing" is not a bad description for the aggressive marketing tactics these companies have used over the years.