Posted by Larry Hoover on April 3, 2005, at 19:10:36
In reply to Happy Pills trademark, posted by used2b on April 3, 2005, at 13:38:02
Do I know you? Did you change your posting name?
> Happy Pills is the trademarked product name of a nutritional supplement offered by a German firm.
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> http://www.worldclassnutrition.com/happypills.htmlInteresting. It contains three herbal antidepressant agents, plus a few nutritional antidepressant augments. I wonder what it's like to take them altogether like that.
> Regardless some people being offended by colloquial understandings of neuropharmacology, serontonin enhancing drugs are largely offered as a remedy for anhedonia, which is a primary symptom of depression.
Sorry to snip so much, but the etiology of the phrase really isn't the issue I address. In the now censored post I had up for consideration at that other place, I discussed what these pharmaceuticals had actually been for me. If I recall, I said something like, "I have never been given Happy Pills. I have received Insomnia Pills, Impotence Pills, Weight Gain Pills, Hepatotoxic Pills, Stupidity Pills," and some more.....something like that.
I argued that the phrase is only generally used by the lay press, and the ignorant masses. Never in a complementary way. It is derogatory, dismissive, condescending.
Anyway, I grow weary of this all. DJ is not even willing to discuss it.
Lar
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