Posted on 08/17/2007 12:11:03 PM PDT by Kaslin
I totally agree.
You’re probably right!
The best cure for depression (unhappiness), is doing something.
“In order to know what you’ve got these days, you have to watch the TV commercials.”
You might appreciate this hilarious offering from YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZPZG92iYE4
This is a classic case, I think, of over-prescribing anti-depressants. At any rate, I refused, as I don't want to be a drugged-up zombie. I'd rather be depressed and teary and bitchy than an unresponsive lump.
Anyway, long story made short, and the point of the story, I went to my ladies' doctor who prescribed an increased dose of my hormone replacement drug. Within 3 days I was better on all fronts.
Moral? Maybe if you're a 50ish woman think about hormone replacement (if possible) first before accepting psychoactive drugs.
Not everyone can be happy all the time. A lot of people just need to get over it!
gee, ya don’t say...:
http://www.ajc.com/health/content/shared-auto/healthnews/emot/607359.html
This is because doctors have a drug that can be prescribed for unhappiness. By simply diagnosing depression and prescribing some random anti-depressant, the doctor can spend even less time listening to the patient.
And unlike pain killers, the feds don't care if anti-depressants are over-prescribed.
The best thing is to never get sick so you never have to see the doctor. And if someone say, "Oh you're looking peaked today, are you feeling okay?" just deck them and ask them "how peaked am I looking now?" Especially if you're feeling fine because it's better to go to jail on an assault beef then to have someone tamper with your health by putting suggestions of ill health in your mind.
/sarcasm /satire /flamebait /nested sarcasm /goto 10
Oh, no, but depression like gambling and alcoholism is a “DISEASE” that you can catch from a dirty toilet seat. Remember children to wash your hands often!
On a kinder note, I guess it is better to over-prescribe anti-depressants then those other modern day blunder drugs, the, um...antibiotics for things like the common cold.
I saw the Tic fight the common cold once and he never used an antibiotic to do it.
Especially if you own stock in pharmacutical companies.
I got flamed here a couple of days ago after suggesting that depression caused by life’s circumstances cannot be cured with talk therapy or pills, citing an example of a man on a desert island, whom you cannot advise to “volunteer with children”, “go out with friends”, etc. If you don’t have friends, who are you going to go out with?
We’re living in a lonely modern society and these pharmaceutical slash therapy cures will not change that one bit. What to do?
Depression overdiagnosed ?
I find that very depressing.
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