Hi,
I am having such strong feelings about this right now (yes - get the pill
script stat!) I don't doubt that for some people the results are
life-saving. For a small number only though - I believe we have gone overboard
- not just with finding new things to medicate ("limerence" as I mentioned a
couple of weeks ago), but treating all kinds of ordinary sadness and normal
healthy grief as needing to be medicated. In the past two weeks I have
encountered 3 people who have reported that family doctors offer them
anti-depressants for events that most of use would judge to be those to which a
reaction of sadness would be healthy and appropriate - the waitress at my local
sushi bar, just last night, who reported that 2 weeks after her dad died from
cancer her family doctor was offering her Prozac.
The corporate profit factor has to be a part of this....most of us adjust in
the long run to blue period and normal grieving if we are just allowed to do
so. This is probably what all that placebo responding is about...But there is a
fortune to be made by drugging the life out of us - literally.
Nancy Melucci
Long Beach City College
Long Beach CA.
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From: Horton, Joseph J. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) <tips@acsun.frostburg.edu>
Sent: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 3:25 pm
Subject: [tips] Doubt about antidepressants
The Financial Times has an article questioning the efficacy of anti-depressants.
http://tinyurl.com/338mhz
>From the article:
Almost 50 clinical trials were reviewed by psychologists from the University of
Hull who found that new-generation anti-depressants worked no better than a
placebo – a dummy pill – for mildly depressed patients.
“They do not always suit everybody but the results are often life-saving.
People who do studies do not have the hands-on experience of using these
medicines.”
Joe
Joseph J. Horton Ph. D.
Box 3077
Grove City College
Grove City, PA 16127
724-458-2004
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