[Mr. Jeeves]

Zoloft (tm): "Turning ordinary young women into Zombie Bitches From Hell since 1986". ;)

[cripplecreek]

I prefer to cope with my problems.

[little jeremiah]

I want to read that book. Unhappiness is generally a spiritual illness and has a spiritual cure. Many times (most?) our unhappiness is directly caused by our own choices.

Or, in the case of cruelty and evil people, other peoples' choices. But even in the midst of dark times, a light can shine within the heart, and help light up the lives of others. I've read stories of people in concentration camps - a couple of priests' stories especially - who gave light to others. Were they "happy" or "unhappy"?

By depending on drugs (soma) as mental analgesic, we can't experience the reality of truth - that we are here in this world for a short time, and everything we're attached to we'll have to leave. The important questions is who are we really and where are we going, and Who's in charge?

Keeping our brains anasthetized with legal or illegal drugs insures that we won't be "bothered" by the questions we're supposed to be asking, and we won't know the answers for the final exam.

[Chode]

seems to me, most people on that crap tend not to give a sh!t... about ANYTHING!!!

in 1999, the wife, my boss, AND HIS BOSS were all on some type of happy pill.

GUESS WHO had to take up the slack for all of them at home AND at work???

and then MY doctor told me I should be on something... i told her FIRST- if you ever say that again i'm outta here. Second then how does she expect anything to ever get done let alone on time and on target???

much to the wifes credit... Six quit taking what ever version and dosage she was currently on(over two years there were many)and has not gone back.
my BOSSES on the other hand... are still out at happy valley, BUT!!! with somebody else watching over the herd cause i quit in june of that year.

you just have to be able to say "I'm OK... I'm not Great and I'm not Terrible... but I'm OK." at least that's what worked for her.

[JmyBryan]

I disagree with many points in the article. Religion has always been about health. Dietary proscriptions are one of the universals. Salvation translates directly to health.

Happiness as a goal comes from the level of affluence we now enjoy. Historically, worrying about the next day's meal, whether it will rain, and who has what disease were the normal course. Now we have the leisure to contemplate our place in the universe along with the accompaning anxiety of that contemplation.

[Wolfie]

The important thing is that these people aren't doing drugs.

[capitalist229]

Doctors are to blame they are in control of the situation.

Doctors have turned into pharmaceutical engineers.

BUMP

[ctdonath2]

Methinks people need a certain amount of misery in their lives. Without it, they can't recognize what's good!

Witness our culture: on the whole, everything is good ... abundance of food, stuff, opportunities, peace, etc. Our cup runneth over. Yet people complain about how bad things are - things nowhere near as bad as in the past, and much of it invented just so there's something to complain about.

A boss once asked me how I could be so incredibly calm and unphased about darn near everything at work (while he was freaking out over one thing after another). I replied "I've spent some time studying self-defense - after serious consideration of how to deal with people trying to kill you, everything else really isn't that upsetting anymore."