Posted by SLS on June 14, 2011, at 5:25:57
In reply to Medicating Unhappiness, posted by jono_in_adelaide on June 14, 2011, at 4:56:13
> It started in the distant mists of time with opium, canibis and alcohol, moved onto bromides in the 1840's, expanded with chloral, sulphonyl and paralderhyde in the late 18th centuary, and realy took hold when the barbiturates were discivered in the early 20th centuary..... then in the 1950's it exploded, amphetamines, Dexamyl, Thorazine, Tofranil, Nardil,Milotwn and in 1960, Librium.
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> We have been medicating unhappiness since the dawn of time, and today Major Depressive Disorder, Bipolar Disorder and the SSRI's are just the latest rebirth of thisDid you read this somewhere? Depression evaluation devices ask more questions that deal with vegetative symptoms than feelings of unhappiness. I do get the feeling that, at least in the US, psychotropic medication is dispensed too liberally. However, I believe that most competent psychiatrist do not use a "happiness scale" or complaints of unhappiness to assess major depressive disorder.
Are we always to focus on incompetence as if it represented the majority?
- ScottSome see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.
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