Posted by bassman on April 22, 2006, at 8:57:25 [reposted on April 23, 2006, at 0:35:23 | original URL]
In reply to Re: The Myth of neurosis » madeline, posted by linkadge on April 22, 2006, at 8:29:58
Let's remember that it wasn't that long ago that people with diabetes were put in insane asylums for life because of their bizarre behaviour.
But my gosh, yes, just like with hypertension, say, try the non-chemical changes of exercise, diet, etc. equally, only go to a psychoactive med if your functioning is impaired or your life is trying to survive another day of anxiety/depression. And yes, drug companies have lots of psychoactive drugs on the market that require them to sell people on the idea that if they aren't happy all the time, they should run to their doc and get a prescription of an on-patent AD at $3/day for the rest of their lives. The Buddha's First Noble Truth was that life is suffering, heck, and he didn't take an AD. I think we all accept that there is a lot of suffering in life for which there is no cure. In "Listening to Prozac", Kramer talks about people taking Prozac to be "better than good". I don't think anyone on this board thinks that's a good idea.
But calling severe depression and anxiety an "excuse"-as the subtitle of the book does...well, it was fun, I'll bet.:>} Maybe I'll wait a couple months until everyone has forgotten this post and have something with the title, "AD's are only for Weenies" and see people trying to write tactful messages while gritting their teeth...:>}
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