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.A family member began taking antidepressants about 6 months ago.  I don't know exactly which medication she is taking.  While her depression is now under control, her behavior is questionable. She now behaves in a childlike manner. She routinely gives her children candy for dinner and then says "don't tell anyone," and when they fight with each other she joins in rather than disciplining them.  She is giddy and distracted during conversations.  She picks fights over silly things.  She tries to gossip and stir up trouble for others.  I tried gently speaking with her about my concerns. She brushed me off.  She claims that she was never depressed in the first place and that the medicine has not really changed anything. (Her depression was quite serious and quite apparant to everyone who knows her.)Are these delusions and childlike behaviors "expected" when someone is on antidepressants? Is there anything I can do to help her when she doesn't believe she has any problems?

Maybe she's on the wrong pills.  Tell her to see a doctor for you, and tell her that u're really concerned for her.  

I don't like psych meds and that is the reason. I have been on many for depression and they never helped me, but they did cause me to hallucinate, get migraine headaches, become very agitated, get dizzy spells to the point of passing out, or regress to childlish thinking, just like you are describing. Your friend can have them prescribe something different, or have them change her dosage, but based upon my experience with them, she will never find normal, she will only trade one problem in for another and sometimes you trade your depression in for schizophrenia, heart disease, diabetes, liver damage, seizures, or even death. It is my opinion that it is best to accept yourself for who you are and learn to deal with it. A drunk uses alcohol to nullify his problems, which only creates more problems, well drug treatment and depression work the same way. Tell her to get therapy so she can learn to discover and correct the root of the problem. There is always a reason someone becomes depressed, correcting the cause will cure her. I've found that the only people these drugs seem to help are those who don't really need help in the first place because their lives are already balanced, they just hit a bump in the road, and when the bump is cleared they have a miraculous recovery, it is when a person can't resolve their problems that treatment always seems to fail. ;-)