I am a full supporter of individuals with true problems in this arena; depression, ADD, anxiety & OCD. I have experience with many very close friends and family members who are affected by one or more of these. I wonder though, if Doctors have been taken advantage of? Is medication at all necessicary for those who are just seeking comfort from this difficult world. These medications are a last resort after all other options have been exausted; not a quick fix for common hardship.
"Every day unhappiness is not a disease. Yet modern medicine now treats it as one. The same drugs designed to relieve major clinical depression are now being prescribed for people who simply complain of dissatisfaction with their lives. One recent study found that two out of three people reporting mild depression to thier doctors are now taking Prozac, Zoloft, or one of the other common antideprewssants. And it's no longer just psychiatrists who are handing out these happiness pills like candy; Primary care doctor are writing 75 percent of the prescriptions for antidepressants, most of them, presumably to patients who do not need psychiatric care. No suprise, then, that the number of people taking thest drugs has doubled since 1998.
"This quiet revolution suggests an entirely new wiew of the human condition, in which happiness is supposted to be a permanant condition, instead of a scarce, transitory, and hard-won victory in a difficult world."
The Philadeolpia Inquirer
"Every day unhappiness is not a disease. Yet modern medicine now treats it as one. The same drugs designed to relieve major clinical depression are now being prescribed for people who simply complain of dissatisfaction with their lives. One recent study found that two out of three people reporting mild depression to thier doctors are now taking Prozac, Zoloft, or one of the other common antideprewssants. And it's no longer just psychiatrists who are handing out these happiness pills like candy; Primary care doctor are writing 75 percent of the prescriptions for antidepressants, most of them, presumably to patients who do not need psychiatric care. No suprise, then, that the number of people taking thest drugs has doubled since 1998.
"This quiet revolution suggests an entirely new wiew of the human condition, in which happiness is supposted to be a permanant condition, instead of a scarce, transitory, and hard-won victory in a difficult world."
The Philadeolpia Inquirer
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