Depression
 

I don't know about anyone else, but it seems to me that all the commercials they have for depression medicines are making people more paranoid about depression. I think people see the commercials and then get into their heads that they are depressed and it is causing people to trick themselves into taking medicine they don't need. I've had people who are depressed tell me their symptoms and they were verbatim from commericals for Wellbutrin....

What do you think?

Giving out placebos to figure the hypochondriacs from the actual sick people works. But no Doctors I know of actually do that.

Cocaine's a helluva drug.

yeah, that would be a good idea, to get the person started on placeabos and then see if there is something actually wrong from there.

Give them crack instead of pills that help.

Depression can be defeated with positive thought alone. Heal thyself with your own mind and don't take happy pills.

Also, the Doctor could refer the patient to a Therapist that can prescribe medication. So there's an actual analysis of the symptoms by a psychologist beforehand.

Bunch of fags who are depressed aren't sleeping enough.

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Psychiatry is a pseudoscience! You don't know the history of psychiatry: I do.

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Yeah, its everywhere... scientists are coming up with so many names for every thing that is not "plain and normal" that everyone thinks they have something. "Oh, I didnt get what I wanted for Christmas....I must be depressed"

Personally, I believe that the current generation growing up is fucked. How many kids are on some sort of drug for something? ADD, depression and whatever else. It's ot of hand. It seems, for anything wrong the answer is to go see the doctor and get them to prescribe something. Whose to blame? Parents? Yes. Drug companies? Absolutley.

[quote:93dba]In 2003, approximately one in eight children had a condition for which they regularly took prescription medication.[/quote:93dba]
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5417a5.htm

[quote:93dba]Spending on prescription drugs for infants, children, adolescents and young adults has increased by 85 percent during the last five years, said Medco, which manages prescription drug plans covering 65 million people and operates a mail order pharmacy.

According to the 2002 Medco Drug Trend study, which reviewed the prescription drug use of half a million people under age 19, younger patients are taking 34 percent more medications than they were five years ago, based on days of therapy. [/quote:93dba]

http://www.rense.com/general29/kids.htm

Fucking disgusting.

Maybe that's what makes me so ... normal. dance:

Alcohol is a great anti-depressant rock:

Ja, so is weeds.