[GOP_1900AD]

Incredibly sad and yet instructive to us all. Even Bible believing Christians can succumb to the dark forces of doubt and loss of ability to confront the future. It is particularly difficult in these times, with the vast majority of society having lost its Judeo-Christian underpinnings. The "system" is one of secular humanism, ahistorical "analysis," and rebellion against futurity. Anti depressants should be banned or vastly reduced in usage as they are an huge mechanism by which the forces of societal atomization undermine particularly children but even as we see here adults.

[sinkspur]

Anti depressants should be banned or vastly reduced in usage as they are an huge mechanism by which the forces of societal atomization undermine particularly children but even as we see here adults.

Utter nonsense.

You'd be seeing ten times the number of suicides without anti-depressive medication.

Anybody who uses "societal atomization" ought to have the sense to leave mental health to the professionals.

[GunRunner]

Anti depressants should be banned or vastly reduced in usage.

Crude words for someone who has never needed them.

[ellery]

Anti depressants should be banned or vastly reduced in usage as they are an huge mechanism by which the forces of societal atomization undermine particularly children but even as we see here adults.

I respectfully disagree with you -- severe mental illness is often physiological in nature, and for these illnesses, anti-depressants are a godsend and literally a matter of life and death. In many tragedies where anti-depressants are involved, the media/lawyers confuse cause and effect -- they blame the medications as a cause, rather than the underlying depression (an analogy: many patients who die of diabetes are taking insulin -- but it does not follow that the insulin treatment is the cause of death). That said, medicating children is a different matter entirely.

[GOP_1900AD]

This might yet become a very interesting discussion thread....