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    1. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey Aug 23
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      Marianne Williamson is right to question the efficacy of anti-depressants. As she told me, people have every reason to be skeptical of whether the pharmaceutical giants making huge profits off these drugs have "pure intent"https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-marianne-williamson-has-a-point-about-psychiatric-medication-20190823-4mv7ef4ccfcptcky2sxqecutym-story.html …

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    2. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey Aug 23
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      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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    3. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey Aug 24
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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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      Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey Aug 24
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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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        1. ΧΡΙΣΤΌΦΟΡΟΣ bɝːd‏ @christopherburd Aug 24
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          Do you remember the propagandistic campaigns that accompanied the introduction f of SRIs in the 80s and 90s? "Better than normal." "They should put it in the water supply." Later: "Yeah, some increase in suicidality. You def want to keep an eye on that."

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        1. Albert Hofmann‏ @fagmyer Aug 24
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          "Williamson's comments are useful" is a great epitaph. Were they useful when she suggested praying for AIDS patients or questions vaccines. I only buy the snake oil that I know I like from Williamson is not a good take.

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        1. Bob Dole’s Viagra‏ @larrybirdmurphy Aug 24
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          Wow IOW BigPharma profits again from illness... this one imposed by USA low standard of living....

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        1. SenorGreyGoose VX‏ @SenorGreyGoose Aug 24
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          How dare you suggest evil, greedy motives. "Free market" capitalists only wish to help people and profit is a secondary consideration. To suggest otherwise is cynical.

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        1. Dave Ravicher‏ @Whtapl Aug 24
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          Because it was the same motive that created the despair in the first place

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        1. Matthew W. Lawrence‏ @gadflymatt Aug 24
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          Yep.

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        1. J. Bradford DeLucy‏ @01wise Aug 24
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          The issue is that these medications are still underutilized and we have an epidemic of depression and suicide, and we don’t need to be exaggerating the risks and downplaying the benefit.

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        1. Vince‏ @V_Lube Aug 24
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          Something not mentioned that I think is worth adding: litigation and unrealistic expectation as a root cause of overprescribing across every specialty.

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        1. Casey Atchison‏ @RB_Atch Aug 24
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          Who doesn’t need a little SOMA in their body chemistry? @joerogan

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        1. Aunt Pootie‏ @caroljeanne11ty Aug 24
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          Too many people take AD's, or got kids on them, to not take all the scrutiny personally.

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        1. MarinaGipps‏ @MarinaGipps Aug 24
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          There are environmental & physiological SOURCES of despair. Environmental should never be medicated unless it is known from the onset that environment is responsible & patient is aiming to change surroundings/situation. These prescriptions MUST be temporary-they’re misused OFTEN

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        1. Tom Vu‏ @Cthulhu_Don Aug 24
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          Also these companies admit that there is no hard science behind the serotonin mechanism. They have not isolated that process and observed it. It's a theory. A multi-billion dollar theory.

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        1. Apocalymon ☭‏ @GamerApocalymon Aug 24
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          I have a lot of criticism of how the mental health system operates, but the drugs work and often when nothing else does. Besides, Williamson thinks prayer cures disease, she's a loon.

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        2. mskathleenquinn‏ @mskathleenquinn Aug 24
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          I don't know what Williamson said but the medicalization of despair is hardly new. Treating despair as a problem of the nerves, or the blood, etc, having a bodily cause has a long long history in many cultures.

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        3. mskathleenquinn‏ @mskathleenquinn Aug 24
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          Really, Williamson is such a charlatan, even if she believes what she is saying. I'm surprised you take an interest. This actually is interesting as to the medical history of treating depression (one German researcher in 1900 traced it back to Homer)https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4087154/ …

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        1. Oloaxan‏ @holoaxan Aug 24
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          Your precise prose pleases plenty

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        1. Anna D‏ @Flos_ad_mare Aug 24
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          Much like the profit motive behind these same pharma companies producing ever newer untested (independently) vaccinations & using FDAs revolving door to ensure not only ubiquity, but MANDATORY injection of their product in all the nation’s children.This is also worth questioning.

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        1. ConfusedLiberal‏ @PhuckSea Aug 26
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          I super agree.

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        1. Robo Kop‏ @RoboKop6000sux Aug 30
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          Whelp, let's go everyone, capitalism is bad now

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        2. Bill Barr Baggins‏ @LogicHobbit Aug 24
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          1. The medicalization of contagious disease is also a very new development in human history. It doesn't follow from that fact alone that it's bad. 2. We should scrutinize the economic motive. But we also shouldn't encourage people to experiment with cave man medicinal remedies.

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