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To: SauronOfMordor
Eric Harris (of Columbine) was on Luvox when he went on his spree

So perhaps a drug mix would have prevented the spree?


This whole topic really bugs me, because there are good points made by both sides--but then they get generalized. Drug cocktails really DO work, and many people have given up on meds prior to finding that "magic combination"... yet on the other hand, many patients are on a whole mix of haphazard meds, without a look at how they work together and might be replaced by a simpler combo. And then there's the good old "parenting skills" idea.

Frankly, psychological/psychiatric disorders are culturally defined...that is, what might be considered schizophrenia in one culture might be considered prophetic shamanism in another. If the environment in which children are developing has changed, perhaps "normal" human biology is out of synch with the modern Western world. I have no doubt that the ability to adapt to an industrial, or information, culture is not the same in all people.

24 posted on 11/23/2006 7:05:39 AM PST by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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To: Gondring
Frankly, psychological/psychiatric disorders are culturally defined...that is, what might be considered schizophrenia in one culture might be considered prophetic shamanism in another.

lol...there you go again...adding depth to the shallows.

29 posted on 11/23/2006 7:11:10 AM PST by Dark Skies ("He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that" ... John Stuart Mill)
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