Posted by Cherry Carver on February 10, 2010, at 15:36:41
In reply to Re: newsweek: antidepressants all placebo effect, posted by jedi on February 9, 2010, at 23:27:59
Very profound statement, Jedi...mental illness is one of the worst diseases in the world because, unless one is drooling and blithering, nobody can see it, and many "sane" people neither understand it nor want to.
I'd rather have cancer than this. Some people wear cancer like a badge--some literally do, with pink ribbons and so forth. Is there a ribbon color for mental illness? I don't think so.
> This is not a game we are all playing. Any illness that is painful enough for a person to consider taking their own life, is right up there with the worse of the purely physical ailments. It takes more than a placebo to break that cycle.
> Be Well,
> Jedi
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