As I mention in the column, I was once prescribed Zoloft after a 20 minute visit with a psychiatrist I had just met. Only in hindsight did it become obvious how crazily perfunctory that process was, and the thought that it's being replicated on a massive scale is very disturbing
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Note: a critical discussion of the societal impact of these still little-understood drugs does not preclude acknowledgement that many people do claim they've been helped by them. But as Williamson says, we should want to understand why there's so much despair in the first place
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Williamson's comments are useful because she's talking about the medicalization of despair (a very new development in human history) through a political frame. BigPharma is widely loathed. Why shouldn't the economic motive behind the sudden ubiquity of these drugs be scrutinized?
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I'd very likely be dead without antidepressants, Michael. Myself and many others.
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I'm glad you were helped, but your personal experience does not preclude a critical, society-wide examination of the efficacy and influence these drugs.
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Abominable virtue-preening argument. Nobody who deals with strangers has "pure intent", for among other reasons because they lack most knowledge about those strangers. Nevertheless companies often produce good products. Get these idiotic Williamson arguments out of my timeline.
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Companies only care about profits. Often it makes more sense to sell some shit which makes them addictive to that shit (and curing a little bit) in stead of actually curing the 1st time, because then people buy more. This is going on right now and downplay that is naive.
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We live in an age when anti-depressants, tranquilizers , etc. are given to put a veil over normal human pain. Pain and sadness are as much a part of life as happiness and joy. My best wishes to you! #IStandWithMarianne -
We live in an age that we are giving antidepressants to our pets. How absurd is that.
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@mtracey.@marwilliamson is only expressing the truth. We need more professionals, psychiatrists and psychologists to step in & speak the truth. As a psychologist, I support her
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A few low doses of magic mushrooms will transform your view of the world & break you free of the cycle of negativity that becomes the well worn path keeping you hostage. Had no idea it would do that ... spent maybe $30. It’s called magic for a reason.
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Thank you for bringing in some measured perspective to this issue. Too many are trying to shut down any rational evenhanded conversation. It’s important to inform us.
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Everyone should have a healthy skepticism of all corporations.
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When I saw them eating her alive for this it became clear it was spearheaded by the industry... suddenly media talking heads are all attacking her for attacking their biggest sponsors... no one seems to consider that!
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2/2: We also are fortunate to have medical science and modern medicine to save those who truly need aid. However, it would be naive to think that Big Pharma is acting out of a sense of altruism.
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Yes, we should be our own advocates!You want to believe that the doctors have your best interest at heart. But with all the kick backs it’s hard to trust the motives behind the prescription of different medicine!
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It's so obvious that big Pharma wants Americans to be fat, unhealthy and depressed. That game needs to be abolished.
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Something I recently wrote with some relevancehttps://nowagepress.com/one-foot-in-the-ashram-searching-for-truth/ …
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We’re all right to question. There’s a big difference between antidepressants for individuals who are depressed and prescribing them as a fall back for lack of diagnostic effort.
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https://www.wpr.org/listen/1501021 "I've been taking them, you've been taking them, for 30 years. We're walking experiments, but the scarier thing than that is that no one is experimenting on us. ... No one's looking in us to find out what might be the long term effects..."
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