[Al B.]

As I pointed out in #134 above, the cultist opposition to psychiatric medication are a direct threat to the life of a member of my family. I will deal with it as such.

Well you better get a suit of armor then, 'cause real opposition to these drugs is coming out of the woodwork. It's coming from places like Harvard, Yale and Columbia, from practitioners' offices everywhere, from book authors to psychiatric survivors' groups, and even from scientists who were involved with the development of Prozac.

BTW, you don't have a corner on the market for personal family tragedies involving mental illness. I suspect a lot of people participating in this discussion can make the same statement, including me.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

real opposition to these drugs is coming out of the woodwork.

No problem, in Florida we know how to deal with carpenter ants.

[drlevy88]

It doesn't help to throw a broadside at those "horrible drugs" any more than to laud them as the next best thing to having been personally touched by Jesus Christ. I would argue that there are far fewer "bad drugs" than there are bad or unsuitable uses of them. Prozac is one. I took it at one time and it weirded me out even worse than what I had been suffering and was glad to be rid of it. Other people absolutely swear by it. Both experiences are equally valid. And it is not a surprise, because what we call "depression" can come from a host of different causes. Our understanding of central nervous system health today is probably where the understanding of, say, blood chemistry was in the 1800s.